[gcompris-devel] Performance issues

[José JORGE]

Le Sunday 30 September 2007 08:03:51 Terje Bergström, vous avez écrit :
> Out of curiosity, I installed oprofile and ran a short test. If I did
> everything correctly, most of the time in gcompris is spent actually in
> gnomecanvas (more than 10000 for libgnomecanvas vs. 24 samples for
> gcompris). This of course leads to thinking that a faster canvas could lead
> to significant performance boost. Then the question becomes that is the way
> gcompris uses canvas somehow non-optimal or is gnomecanvas just plain slow.
As far as I've heard, gnomecanvas was always considered slow, but easy to use. 
That's why it was choosen. As example, childsplay uses a faster graphical 
layer, but I understood it is harder to program. Or maybe it just needs a 
good plugin example...