On 11/9/05, Jerry Feldman
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 5:13 pm, Andre Truter wrote:
Yes, that is true, but in the context of this thread it is not a real factor. A person stated that GNOME should be slower than KDE because it is written in C. Why would an application written in C (GNOME/GTK) be slower than an application written in C++(KDE/QT). In my experience, I have seen applications written in an interpretive language run faster than comparable apps written in C,
That is my point. With something like GNOME and KDE there are too many variables in design and sub-systems used that you cannot say that one is faster than the other purely based on the language used. but assuming that both sets of code are reasonably well
written, C++ should be a bit slower because of 2 factors (C++ has more code, and C++ compilers cannot optimize as well as C compilers yet).
Yes, I agree here, so, even if we could compare GNOME and KDE purely based on implementation language, then GNOME should be faster, so the original statement made earlier in the thread is invalied. -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~