Re: Release of gui libraries

[Philippe C.D. Robert]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:49:04 +0100
"Peron, Stéphane" <stephane.peron@dcmc.creditlyonnais.fr> wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> It is not about a serious bug but I am just wondering why pictures are
> displayed so slowly in ImageViewer !
>
> For a comparison, I use acdsee under windows 98 with less video memory (2MB)
> and less RAM (64M0) that displays the same pictures that I try to see under
> gnustep (with 8MO video memory, 512MO RAM) with image viewer.
> The results under Windows are best for all tests.
> 
> The difference between both is rather important when I display one picture
> and I want to switch to an other picture.
> 
> So .. my question :
> Is the problem due to the couple  Xfree & gnustep GUI wich leads to a very
> heavy configuration or is it just a problem a optimization of code ?

I noticed a considerable slowdown in displaying images when moving from 0.7.0
to recent CVS code during December 01. I do not know what it is, but sth must 
have changed there!
 
-Phil
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Philippe C.D. Robert
Software Engineer
Silicon Graphics, Inc.