Re: Pentium 4

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 02:14:05PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> KDE performs poorly when large amounts of text are in a window, EG when kmail 
> displays a message with a few megs of text.  I've seen the same operations 
> run faster on other GUI software on 386 machines than kmail runs on P3 
> machines!

This is an X server problem in part. You also need to be sure to compare what
the apps are doing - there is a cost to rendering antialiased text for 
zillions of languages for example. If you switch your X server to unaccelerated
and turn on shadowfb your fonts probably go a lot quicker at the moment btw.

(Software render implementation has some design issues, XFree86 DDX lacks
 DMA 'get rectangle', and most servers still lack hardware render acceleration)


> Maybe we should create a list of programs who's performance is an issue for 
> Fedora so that interested people can start investigating them?

Like "why does glibc's internationalisation post install script use 120Mb ?"

I think that is my favourite right now.