[rescue] Re: [SunHELP] Solaris 9, First thoughts

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 15:05, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 03:12:32PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > On January 19, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> > > > I still wasn't impressed. I don't really like Gnome on Linux or FreeBSD,
> > > > and I found it pretty pokey on Sol 9. It behaved well, it just felt slow
> > > > and cumbersome. ('Course I installed it on my trusty dual-CPU SPARC20,
> > > > not on a 900MHz box...)
> > >
> > > GNOME feels like mud on a fairly fast Pentium crate.
> > 
> >   Inexperienced programmers with C++ compilers mean HUGE, SLOW CODE.
> 
> GNOME is 100% C.  Well, almost.  Some pieces use extensive guile, some 
> extensive librep (Sawfish for instance), etc.  Gnome 1.0 was reasonably
> fast.  CORBA through ORBit is being use a lot more now.  I don't know how

Yeah, and bonobo, which fits into CORBA and ORBs somehow, is still
undergoing massive speedups, which is desperately needs.  It's not a
lightweight component model by any means.

> much this effects things.  I would expect that Sawfish would be pretty slow
> since it is all interpretted lisp, but it actually seems to be one of the
> faster/better pieces.

I don't know about better, John didn't do a very good job regression
testing it, but it's certainly fast.  Any crazy fools want to help port
the rep-gtk bindings to the new GTK+?
	Greg

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