On 6/27/06, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote: > * We are looking at starting off a project to have a Configuration and > Administration GUI for BeleniX and by implication OpenSolaris. It > will be using GTK and done using C for performance and smaller > resource requirements. Portability is out of the question here.
IMHO, doing a C-gtk thingy doesn't give enough of an edge to not use a scripting language with gtk-binding. perl, ruby, python - all of these qualify. Most of the overhead is in getting the interpreter loaded. Drawing and event handling time is comparable. I did a comparison between "hello world" thingy in c-gtk and python-gtk excluding the load/init time. The c thing took 0.27 seconds while the python thing took 0.24 seconds (sparc s10+). perl/ruby maybe faster. For something that spends its life waiting for the user to poke or click or drag, performance is not of the essense. For the developer however turn-around time will matter. RAD is the keyword. cheers Binu ps: The programs are attached. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: hello.c Type: text/x-c Size: 4216 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20060628/5be233d9/attachment.bin> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: hello.py Type: text/x-python Size: 3420 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20060628/5be233d9/attachment.py>
