[Kde-games-devel] Fwd: Re: SVG Rendering speed

[Mauricio Piacentini]

Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Its KNetWalk were it takes several seconds (I didn't measure but I think
> its something like 20 or so) until the highscore dialog comes up after
> finishing the game.

Andreas, I am not sure why you are getting times that extreme, as the 
hardware you mentioned is not much slower compared to what I use. The 
highscores in KNetwalk are indeed in need of an overhaul. This is listed 
as a blocker issue for KDE 4.0 at our status page:

http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Games/Status_KDE_4.0

But in my setup, even without any hardware acceleration and running on a 
VMWare instance, it shows up in maybe 2-3 seconds after the end game. 
Others show up instantly, but the delays you are getting are indeed extreme.
The same is true for your initial SVG rendering times. Can you tell me 
how much does it take to startup KMahjongg? Actually, to measure just 
SVG resizing, try the following: startup KMahjongg, set the window to 
cover maybe 1/4 of the screen. Now maximize the window. How much time 
does it take for this full redraw?

Guys, KNetwalk is still in very bad shape imo. Pipes do not connect 
properly, scaling ratio is not maintained, frozen pipes do not show up, 
and theme selection is not implemented. I really think we should examine 
carefully the decision about including it in 4.0, before RC1... There 
are so many non-optimal components that will be in 4.0, we should 
probably avoid including non-essential stuff that we know is not working 
as it should. Any thoughts on this?

Regards,
Mauricio Piacentini