On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Fred Morcos <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Etoile takes some time to load, more like it stalls for some time then > suddenly the bars appear.
This is not normal -- it could be because some servers (e.g. the pasteboard server) aren't started. > Also, applications (most notably Vindaloo > vs. i.e. Evince) are performing poorly in terms of speed and > responsiveness. Is this due to Objective-C at the very fundamental > level? or is something wrong in my installation? or is something > Vindaloo just written quickly for now then will be made faster later? No, Objective-C has nothing to do with this. Remember, it was first used as the main programming language (including kernel drivers) on a NeXT cube -- sporting a 68040 running at the blazing speed of 25Mhz! Now, Vindaloo might be slower than evince on your machine for a variety of other reasons (it's not maintained actively too, so nobody worked on any performance improvements for example). So yeah, it's more a case of Vindaloo being written quickly and nobody had a shot at improving the performances yet :) (You're welcome to work on it if you want!) Cheers, -- Nicolas Roard "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
