-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2005-11-08 at 23:41 +0200, Andre Truter wrote:
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.
As a matter of fact, yes, it was felt that kde was slower than gnome, and one of the given reasons was because one was written with C++ and the other in C. This was felt by the kde developers, so much so, that they teamed with the gcc folks to improve the optimizing code method for gcc (g++) when compiling c++ code. Now, the feeling is that kde has improved in speed due to this effort (as seen in SuSE 10, I'm told). Note that this do not means that one is inherently slower than the other, or viceversa; rather, that the proper attention to optimizing code had not yet been given to the compiler used. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDd9pttTMYHG2NR9URAnDBAJ9WwA73k+iZY72wIOdHvud7ZffwAQCfU0IV 7TztIyLzzV4fEdKpaPgMDV0= =uAuM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----