Speed: XnView on Linux vs. Windows
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:55 pm
On Linux I find if I start MP and minimise the window straight away, it takes about 3-4 times as long to load a directory with a lot of files with embedded thumbnails as Windows Xnview does under Wine.
If I don't minimise it then it takes about 50% longer to load than if I do minimise it, so it could be up to 5 to 6 times slower than running the Windows version (not MP) in Wine!
It is also much slower loading a file when I click on it, although this is harder to measure.
The Windows version also has the advantage that you can scroll somewhere while the thumbnails are loading and the thumbnails there will load first
I wonder whether this just means that QT4 is rubbish, or that the actual MP code is less efficient at the moment... I don't have any other QT4 apps, so I can't tell, but I thought it was "supposed" to be faster than QT3, which didn't seem to be particularly slow on my machine (when I used to have QT apps )
If I don't minimise it then it takes about 50% longer to load than if I do minimise it, so it could be up to 5 to 6 times slower than running the Windows version (not MP) in Wine!
It is also much slower loading a file when I click on it, although this is harder to measure.
The Windows version also has the advantage that you can scroll somewhere while the thumbnails are loading and the thumbnails there will load first
I wonder whether this just means that QT4 is rubbish, or that the actual MP code is less efficient at the moment... I don't have any other QT4 apps, so I can't tell, but I thought it was "supposed" to be faster than QT3, which didn't seem to be particularly slow on my machine (when I used to have QT apps
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