On 11/8/05, Allen
The fact is actually that one cannot really say that the one language is faster than the other, becuase the speed all depends on the implementation and what you want to do.
A myth usually shown false with a little assembler.
OK, I'll agree that something written in assembler is about always faster that written in any other language, but someone can also write a program in assembler that will be slower than the same program written in C. The assembler version would then be written very bad. That is my point here. If you compare compilers and languages you generally implement the exact same program in them all and you try to do the best implementation in each language and compile with best options. Then, assembler will be afstest and C will be faster than C++. But to compare somthing like GNOME and KDE and say that one is faster than the other becuase of the language used is not valid, because they are two different things, with two different designs consisting of hundreds of applications. There are too many variables that affect the speed.
And I ahve seen lots of people complain about dependency problems when installing GNOME. Funny thing is that I don't have any.
Install it from source. Why do you think Slackware dropped it?
When one install GNOME on SUSE you don't install it from source, so how is this relevant? People complain that when they install GNOME with rpms that it has dependency problems. Installing from source is a totally different story. By the way, Gentoo is a real install-from-source distro and they use GNOME. Slackware does not install from source, they use pre-compiled binaries in tar.gz archives. -- 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 ~