Re: A tale of waiting
- From: Mathieu Lacage <mathieu lacage sophia inria fr>
- To: Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
- Cc: Jernej Simončič <jernej listsonly ena si>, gtk-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: A tale of waiting
- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:54:20 +0200
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 09:31 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 10:25 +0200, Jernej Simončič wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:12:05 +0200, Kristian Rietveld wrote:
> >
> > > As a side comment, I am not really sure how fair it is to compare a
> > > full blown GUI to a command line utility with its output redirected to
> > > /dev/null. I do agree that a load time of 4 to 6 seconds is too long.
> >
> > I don't know about Linux, but on Windows the native chooser displays large
> > directories almost instantly, while the GTK+ one is very slow (eg.
> > directory with 970 images takes about 2 seconds to display in the native
> > file chooser, while in GTK+'s it takes 12 seconds).
>
> Except that the Windows explorer actually has knowledge of the
> filesystem itself. This was mentioned and discussed with Darin Adler
Was this discussion public ?
> (very many years ago, as he mentioned he got that information from the
> BeFS developer (Italian lad, whose name escapes me right now)).
That would be "Dominic Giampaolo".
Mathieu
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