[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] GTK2.8 ??

[From: Matthew Allum]

Hi;

On 7/20/06, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl> wrote:
>
> Maemo already uses softfloat and it's still slow.
>

Right, FPUs exist for reason. If softfloat was perfect they wouldn't.
You still take a hit, just not as much as hardfloat.

Also I dont think its just FP causing a slowdown though this appears
to be particularly nasty in pango-cairo GTK+ usage ( see below
referenced thread ).

>
> Don't count on it, Carl has had a long history of playing with arm based
> machines, even before cairo was started. But we'll see, but I won't have
> high hopes, even if I *really* like cairo.
>

There is some movement on the GNOME performance list - See the
'Floating point in pango' thread. Archives are broke so see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.performance/
Please get involved if you think you could help.

  -- Matthew