[Lazarus] Performance of GTK 2 and CE

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Luca Olivetti wrote:

> I have an application made with 0.9.26/gtk2 that is routinely[*] run in 
> remote through an ssh tunnel (the X server is either linux or windows 
> xming).

That does of course raise the interesting point that part of the remote 
performance issue could be an X server issue. Fortunately I've got XMing 
on another laptop, so selecting one of the more "complete" sets of tests:

 > x86 800MHz laptop Debian "Lenny" 0.9.24/2.2.0
 > 	local
 > 		gtk	  3.5
 > 		gtk2	 12.4
 > 	remote
 > 		gtk	  9.5
 > 		gtk2	 60.3

	remote (XMing)
		gtk	  5.1
		gtk2	199.9

 > x86 800MHz laptop Debian "Lenny" 0.9.26/2.2.2
 > 	local
 > 		gtk	  3.7
 > 		gtk2	 13.7
 > 	remote
 > 		gtk	 10.0
 > 		gtk2	 60.4

	remote (XMing)
		gtk	  5.0
		gtk2	199.9

In the case of the gtk2 test I also time a 6 second "Big Freeze" between 
the form appearing and being usable.

I admit to being very surprised here by gtk1 being faster but gtk2 being 
so much slower. However this isn't a particularly recent copy of XMing- 
the machine is used for mundane but important jobs like setting up the 
PABX and it doesn't get fiddled with.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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