Re: Gtk frontend, uninstall animation

2006/10/10, Mike Hearn <mike@...>:
> How does this affect speed? The GTK progress bar animation uses the
> same APIs as mine does (well actually in newer versions Cairo which I
> think is no faster). If even quite simple animations can badly affect
> backend speed I'd at least like to see some measurements for this
> ....at any rate it's a 1.2.1 thing.

I haven't really benchmarked, but my gut feeling is that this should
be faster than the custom arrow animation. Most notably for two
reasons:
 * We can severily lower the frequency of redraws My patch runs at
half the frequency of the arrow animation and could be even lower
without problems.
 * Drawing of the progress bar is handled by the GTK theme, which
effectively means that a low end system can (and should) run a simple
gtk theme that can draw fast, while high end system w/ cario will get
GL powered sweetness.

I'll see if I can get some unscientific numbers on the speed
difference (if any), and hold this patch untill 1.2.1.

Thanks,
Isak

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