RE: "GPE: Quietly Kicking Ass"

>Le mar 25/11/2003 à 13:00, Amrein-Marie Christophe a écrit :
>> >on Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:35:23AM +1000, lpotter wrote:
>> >>
>> >> But it might
>> >> be easier for Gpe to ditch X11 and use a framebuffer.
>>
>> >What advantages would this give ?
>>
>> Speed

>Mmmh no. I recently switched from GPE to Opie for PIM-sync reasons,
>awaiting for the advantages you describe because of the direct
>framebuffer use, and was deceived. No apparent speedup.

Yes both are slow, I know :). Just note that QT is written in C++ and that
X11/GTK is written in C.
To have an idea of what king of improvement you can have, just try to see
the difference between both toolkit when they are on top of X11 on a
standard X86 PC.
It give you an idea of what could be GPE with direct fb access (Oops,
Matchbox only run on top of x11 ;).

Note that Opie doesn't have the screen that flash when its applications
redraw their graphical interface, etc...
Received on Tue Nov 25 2003 - 14:16:31 EST