[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] testing pango with 770

[From: Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri]

On 12/21/05, Kalle Vahlman <kalle.vahlman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/21/05, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/21/05, Tapani Pälli <tapani.palli at nokia.com> wrote:
> > > * What is causing slowness?
> >
> > It's disappointing that with every release gtk gets slower...
>
> Where's the numbers for that? Or is this the fabled "user experience"
> that can't be measured but is always right, no matter what is proved?
>
> (sorry for being a smart-ass, but I want those numbers so GNOME can be
> "fixed" in this regard so nobody has to whine about it anymore...)

What Tapani sent wasn't numbers? As you may see from them, as pango
and glib versions increased, things got slower.

Ok, I'm also from the crew that thinks that things should be optimized
just after you get the system working and if it's necessary. Pango is
full-featuread and mature, since it's a core component, it needs some
optimizations. So we need to optimize it.

One might think "why don't this guy optimize it?" Answer is simple:
it's easier to pango developers to know where to optimize, they know
what to optimize and they know the code. So a week or so in feature
freeze dedicated to "speeding up" will give more results than me
spending a whole semester looking at it.

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