GtkPerf 0.40 review

GtkPerf is an application designed to test GTK+ performance

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Kaj Gr?nholm

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GtkPerf is an application designed to test GTK+ performance. The point is to create common testing platform to run predefined GTK+ widgets (opening comboboxes, toggling buttons, scrolling text yms.) and this way define the speed of device/platform.

I know that bencmarking tools (including GtkPerf) can be fooled and don't give real-life results. Yet, I belive that GtkPerf can be helpful to solve for example this kind of things:

- How fast is my hardware/software platform compared to others?
- How fast/slow GTK+ is with different themes?
- Is there any notably slow widgets when using my GTK+ theme(engine)?
- How much does GTK+ performance increase when moving e.g. from GTK+ 2.4 -> 2.6?
- How much does GTK+/GDK perfomance increase when updating X-server?
- Can GTK+ be efficiently used in embedded devices?

There exist other performance tools but none to measure GTK+ UI speed.

What's New in This Release:
Allow gtkperf to build on non gcc compilers such as forte. (Brian Nitz)
Patch for automatic test runs from commandline (Brian Nitz)
Improved above patch from Brian, to allow specifying test count from commandline. See "gtkperf --help" for instructions (Kaj Gr?nholm)