Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Q: Performance GTK1 vs GTK2

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From: Olivier Abad <oabad@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 22:19:10 +0100
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:47:45PM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Joerg Mayer wrote:
> 
> >When GTK2 was first released, someone noted a big loss of performance of
> >v2 relative to v1. GTK2 has seen several releases since, so I'm interested
> >whether the problem is still significant.
> 
> I mentioned this quite a while ago. This was true for win32 GTK2 then.
> 
> It seems to be a lot better since then (I'm using a GTK2 version from 
> 20031112), but I cannot give a concrete number how slow it is compared 
> to GTK1.


Guy's change to remove column autoresize really helped gtk2 performance.
Ethereal with GTK+ v2 is now almost as fast as with GTK+ v1.2 even on
large captures.

Olivier
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