Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] modern Linux desktops

2012-01-04 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Tuesday 03 January 2012 21.50:19 nore...@z505.com wrote: Same here. I found linux to be slower than Windows XP and Windows 2000 sadly, I think part of it is the X11 being slower than win32 gui calls, but I am not sure since I have never profiled to see what is slowing it down. Even mozilla

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] modern Linux desktops

2012-01-04 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Tuesday 03 January 2012 22.33:23 IvankoB for-mse wrote: From my short LINUX C/C++ experience, it looks really difficult to write resourse-relaxed apps for LINUX. Just look into GTK2+, KDE4+ etc application bricks. Also all they're C++ based thus a lot of dynamic memory fragmentation which

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] modern Linux desktops

2012-01-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 3 January 2012 22:50, nore...@z505.com wrote: down. Even mozilla firefox seems to load web pages slower and less snappy than MS Windows. That the snappy-ness under MS Windows could be because most recent web browsers (Firefox, Chrome, IE9) are hardware accelerated. No such hardware

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] modern Linux desktops

2012-01-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 3 January 2012 23:42, Lars nore...@z505.com wrote: i find it is X11 that is actually slowing things down. But since I have no evidence or proof it is the X11 bandwidth or wrappers or code indirection X11 has a lot of latency issues - mostly due to its client/server (network) based design.

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] modern Linux desktops

2012-01-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4 January 2012 10:55, Martin Schreiber mse00...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think so. MSEgui X11 applications are as fast as gdi32 applications if they are not slowed down by a modern compositing window manager. From my point of view as GUI toolkit developer the X11 API is well designed, As a