[Lazarus] Generics

[Lee Jenkins]

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Mattias Gaertner
> <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
>   
>>>  - LCL-gtk2 applications are slower than gtk2 pure applications
>>>       
>> What did you measure? How much?
>>     
>
> I think that the great comparation is gedit vs SynEdit. gedit has a
> decent speed, while synedit (and thus lcl-gtk2) has noticable speed
> issues.
>
> I think it was already determined that pango/cairo was the problem and
> that using gdk directly would solve our problems, wasn't it?
>   

LCL uses only gdk for draw.
For text, is still necessary to use pango (unlike LCL writes your own 
wrapper around FreeType/FontConfig, Win32 fonts, CGFont systems). Gdk 
text functions are deprecated/unmaintaned.

>   
>>> If the LCL devels agree in one week i can provide a complete
>>> separated Gtk2 interface so the changes to get LCL-Gtk2 faster can be
>>> done easily and without breaking gtk1
>>>       
>> What do you mean with 'complete separated Gtk2 interface'?
>>     
>
> I think he means separating gtk2 from gtk1.
>   

Yes. Separate physically the interface code.

> Is Luis in the dev mailling list? The issue of separating was already
> extensively discussed, and Mark didn't accept it, so we reached a
> compromise that only some parts can be split for now, and that we
> can't just split, but we need to first, or at the same time, improve
> the code.
>   

In this case, if you change your mind i'm still here.

Luiz