[mgt-devel] delay it for a few days please.

[Craig Sanders]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:08:20PM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 06:48:31AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > i guess one important question to find out the answer to is:
> > 
> >   is vte inherently slow or does Gnome Terminal just use it badly - or
> >   use features that we don't need in MGT?
> 
> that's why I'd appreciate testing my code because it uses vte too.

ok, just compiled tabterm.  seems ok for v0.01.

some very lame timing tests, running "time ls -l /usr/lib":

multi-gnome-terminal (264 columns x x86 lines, font
"-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-c-*-koi8-r"):

real    0m0.327s
user    0m0.064s
sys 0m0.088s


tabterm (227 columns x 74 lines, font "fixed 11"):

real    0m6.002s
user    0m0.036s
sys 0m0.068s


> Seems we will be using zvt.

it seems significantly faster.  0.327s vs 6.002s.  about 18x faster.


> P.S this comment sounds interesting too:
> http://foolab.org/node/1734#comment-18071

BTW, these timing tests were performed on a machine with a Dell 2407 24"
LCD, with subpixel smoothing enabled.

craig

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