Re: [Gretl-devel] sluggish on winxp
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Sven Schreiber wrote:
it seems to me that gretl on windows is not as "snappy" as
it used to
be. I'm referring at least to 1.8.7 and the current snapshot, not sure
when I started seeing the behavior, as I work with gretl more often on
Linux.
I experience short but annoying delays when windows are opened and stuff
like that. I'm guessing the GTK toolkit is responsible -- I seem to
remember that an updated version has been used by gretl recently?
I don't have XP to test on any more, but I do test on Vista from
time to time. What I notice is that gretl is a bit "gummy" at
start-up (and gnuplot graphs take a while to come up at first),
compared to under Linux on the same machine. I assume this is an
OS thing ("security" checks?). Windows itself is very slow to
start compared to Linux. But once the program has been running for
a while the responsiveness seems pretty similar on the two
platforms.
Allin.