[ardour-dev] [Fwd: ardour porting to GTK+-2 caveats]

[Nick Murtagh]

Paul Davis wrote:
> find that it consumes and exhorbitant amount of CPU.  I've traced this issue in
> my own code. (not nearly complex as anything like ardour) and pango was the
> culprit, bugs were filed and fell on deaf ears (owen taylor) and nothing has
> been done over the past 3 years.  I've since decided that QT-4 was a better

Not exactly true:

     http://primates.ximian.com/%7Efederico/news-2005-10.html#09
     http://primates.ximian.com/%7Efederico/news-2005-10.html#10

I would imagine canvas performance is more important than text
performance in ardour anyway?