Kernel scheduling algorithm and X.Org performance

[Olivier Galibert]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 05:34:26PM +0400, Dmitry M. Shatrov wrote:
> As I know, unlike Qt, Gtk+ queues frequent expose events
> and lets the application deal with one large expose than a dozen of smaller ones.
> It is hard for developers of nontrivial graphics programs to adopt to this
> (as it was once hard for me). Did you ever notice how list scrolling lags in
> Gtk+, especially when you use a theme with bitmap-tiled background?
> (something that does not happen in Qt), or how badly Evince PDF viewer
> (at least its earlier versions, I don't have the most recent one)
> handles scrolling compared to kpdf?

Errr, what has scrolling to do with expose events?  Are the toolkits
designers doing a round-trip with the X server just for the fun of it?

  OG.