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

[Mohammed Sameer]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:56:28AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for testing.

I usually don't care much about such benchmarks but I tried VTE before and I
"felt" it was also slower.

I can only say we will use zvt2 (the zvt gtk2 port). The other solution'd be
writing our own widget but I'm not going to do that.

It's C++, gtkmm and zvt2 then.

Cheers,

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