[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: OS2006 roadmap

[From: Koen Kooi]

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Ross Burton schreef:
> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 11:57 -0800, Carl Worth wrote:
>> I have no information about what version of GTK is used on the newer
>> model,
> 
> Maemo 3.0 uses "GTK+ 2.6.10-2osso27", which of course is *heavily*
> patched.
> 
>> but I hope the meme of "GTK and cairo are too slow for
>> embedded" will die soon. We in the cairo community have been working
>> hard to make a lot of improvements during the cairo 1.3.x snapshots,
>> (and particularly performance improvements for machines without
>> hardware floating-point units).
> 
> The week before Christmas I put the latest Cairo/Pango/GTK+ on a Zaurus,
> and was blown away by the improvements.  I never got around to
> benchmarking it but visually the original GTK+ 2.8 release was painful,
> this is actually usable.

I second that, with cairo 1.3.10 and pango 1.15.2 gtk 2.10.7 feels *fast* compared to 2.8
and about as fast as gtk 2.10.6 with Xan's xft patch to rip out cairo. Although a 620MHz
pxa270 is a bad comparision to a omap1710.
Making it even faster is of course better :)


regards,

Koen
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