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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 16:08:54 +0100
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From: hpj DOT lisa AT t-online DOT de (Hans-Peter Jansen)
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Marc Lehmann wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 08:34:09AM +0100, Michael Hanke wrote:
> 
> > The main exception in my applications are qt/KDE/lyx. Does anybody
> > have experiences in the gain in speed for these programs?
 
as the limiting bandwidth for these cases is almost always the user ;-)
I prefer size over speed optimizations, as long as non calculation intensive
code is concerned.

> Well, given that my perl-gtk programs run just as fast as their c-written
> counterparts I don't think program speed is the limiting factor for these.
> (there are exceptions, of course, an opimized imlib or gimp does make a
> difference ;)

I will check this soon with the upcoming pgcc snapshot. Will you please
give us a message here, then.

Hans-Peter

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