Aaahm.

I use Abiword extensively (1.9.something beta) and I love it, but while
faster then anything else (Especially OO...) it's unacceptably slow on
my laptop. (P366/256/icewm)

Gilboa

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 00:52, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:31:55AM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > I general I try to avoid the C vs C++ and the C++ vs world arguments.
> > But let me make a brief comment:
> > My first PC (I had a couple of commodores before that... but that beside
> > the point) was an IBM XT 4.77Mhz with 64KB which was capable of doing
> > (peak performance) around 50-100,000 simple integer operations per
> > second. 
> > My current home machine is a Dual AthlonXP 1900, with 1GB memory, 10K
> > SCSI and an nVidia GF4/4400. This machine, can roughly do 4-5x10^9
> > simple integer operations per second.
> > In short, it's around 100,000 times faster. (Even more... a
> > current-level graphics cards is 10^9 times faster at throwing pixels
> > then my XT's CGA.)
> > 
> > And you know what? My company's client software is written in Java...
> > and it's slower then anything I ever ran on my XT. Every single object
> > oriented based text editor I use (minus VI) runs much slower then my
> > XT's Wordstar... should I continue? Open office rings a bell?
> 
> Abiword?
> 
> OpenOffice, AbiWord and Mozilla. Three cross-platform applications
> written in C++. All happen to have the Unix GUI based on GTK (not
> starting a QT vs. gtk fight here. I just mention it as a common thing).
> 
> OOo and mozilla built a huge cross-platform framewrok. Abiword: to a
> much lesser extent.
> 
> Oh, and there is also LyX, with the long-standing strugle for
> toolkit-independent GUI. Currently only has two X-based interfaces
> (xforms-based and QT-based) and a gtk-based in the works. No native
> win32 port yet.



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