cycling to the panel via the alt+tab

[Benedikt Meurer]

Oliver Lehmann wrote:
>>I recently switched from Gnome to xfce4 and I'm loving it!  It makes my 
>>700mhz laptop feel much faster.
> 
> Lucky guy... ;) I recently switched finally from xfce 3 to 4.2... and
> everything feels now slower :(
> I would accuse gtk20 for that (xfce3 was gtk12) because of all the
> cpu-cycles stealing utf8-encoding %"§$&". But for example workspace
> switching puts my system load to 100% 500MHz Celeron + 640MB of RAM,
> DualHead (2304x864)

Concerning the "cpu-cycles stealing utf8-encoding" statement: Can you 
explain how to measure cpu-cycles that where "stole" by a character 
encoding? And compared to what? To ASCII? To UCS-2? To UTF-16? To 
ISO-Latin1? And when does that happen? When computing the length of a 
string? When reading a string from a file? Or is it something that runs 
in the background while using UTF-8?... hope you'll get the joke here, 
and see what I mean.

Benedikt