Patterned slow-down over the entire GNOME desktop

[Rahul Sundaram]

Ralf Ertzinger wrote:

>On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:41:38PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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>>Thats pretty vague. Benchmarks, reproducible regressions, specific bug 
>>reports etc is the way to move forward with this.
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>Yes, I know. Working on that. One thing I have established is that Clearlooks
>is significantly slower than bluecurce (although I can not say whether
>FC4-CL is faster/slower than RC-CL right now).
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>My other gripe is Xv performance, I am writing a benchmark to get to the
>bottom of that one.
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>For fun, here are some gtkperf numbers for current RH, RH default theme
>(mainly CL, I think) vs. bluecurve. Machine is a PII400, Number Nine T2R
>(yay!). 100 gtkperf iterations. The Pixbufs numbers are bogus, ignore.
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Ok So I created his page for tracking such efforts on a ongoing basis. 
What we need a list of tools and how to produce these benchmarks and 
document the results between various version of Fedora under different 
settings. We can start by tracking down and avoiding regressions.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Performance

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