[mgt-devel] NEWBIE QUESTIONS: which autoconf to use?

[Mohammed Sameer]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:19:04AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:00:56PM +0100, Emilian Nowak wrote:
> > On 19-02-2008, at 21:30:06 Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> > 
> > > How can AA fonts be disabled ? Any idea ?
> >
> > You can do this in libvte
> > 
> > There is a function like
> > void vte_terminal_set_font_full(VteTerminal *terminal,
> > 				const PangoFontDescription *font_desc,
> > 				VteTerminalAntiAlias antialias);
> 
> ah, that's good.
> 
> so, if that results in reasonable speed, the only thing missing is a
> function to check for new output in a terminal tab (to change the colour
> of the tab title).
> 
> if vte is good enough then using it avoids the hassle of maintaining
> zvt just for MGT2. it's probably also got better unicode support that
> Mohammed probably needs if he wants to support arabic script (although
> if that impacts speed, it should probably be a compile-time option and a
> separate binary or even a separate package).

No. VTE doesn't also work properly with Arabic.

Anyway, don't bother about Arabic. A very few people are using that so it's not fair for
to affect the majority.


> > > How can you really test something like "the widget speed" ?
> >
> > Create window put one terminal-widget on it and do something like Craig
> > Sanders proposed: List all files from some big directory and measure time.
> 
> listing /usr/lib was just a quick way of generating a lot of output
> without having to think about it or do any programming :-) i did say it
> was a lame test.
> 
> better to do something like pre-generate a dozen or so random lines and
> print them repeatedly in a loop. otherwise you're also testing the speed
> of the disk & disk cache, and the getent & stat() lookups (for 'ls -l').

That's why I repeated the test until I started to get almost equal times.
I did the test but it didn't really make a big difference.

Attached a patch with the changes I made. Do you mind testing it again ?

generating a dozen of lines is easy (/dev/urandom ?).

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