General GTK questions

[steve <beforewisdom yahoo com>]

Hi;

I first got acquainted with gtk on linux.  I am still being impressed.

I installed gaim on my windows box at work and was very impressed that 
GTK also runs on windows.

Is this done with the gtk runtime engine?  Is gtk ported to new 
platforms or interpreted?

If it is interpreted it seems a lot faster then java.

Just curious

Steve