OT: Why planet gnome doesn't tell all the truth?

[Robin Haswell]

I'd love to see Eterm in this comparison. I don't know about the actual 
application performance, but I know Eterm will *display* a large cat or 
dump many, many, many times faster than gnome-terminal.

-Rob

Xavier Otazu wrote:
>  	Hi!
>
> Today I've read a post on planet gnome claiming that the new gnome 
> terminal v2.14 is faster than xterm. The obtained results, executing 
> "time cat /usr/share/dict/words", are
>
> xterm: 4.3 sec
> gnome term v2.12: 3.1 sec
> gnome term v2.14: 1.0 sec
>
> I know that many factors may change results, and that the data I obtained 
> may be refused with many arguments ... but I liked to reproduce this 
> experiment.
>
> I performed the same experiment simultaneously on XFCE 4.2.3.2, Gnome 2.6 
> and KDE 3.4 (Xfce is the only one I've compiled from source, and Gnome and 
> KDE were installed from Slackware 10.2 packages). The terminals I used 
> were rxvt v2.7.10, xterm, gnome-terminal v2.6.1 (alias gterm) and konsole 
> 1.5.2.
>
> I think using different terminals in different window managers may give a 
> clue about managers performance and sinergies between managers and their 
> respective terminals.
>
> Here I post the results for every terminal and environtment (I executed 
> the command five times:
>
>               XFCE        KDE        GNOME
>               ====       =====       =====
>
>             0:00.84     0:01.05     0:01.12
>             0:00.86     0:01.08     0:01.11
> rxvt       0:00.84     0:01.07     0:01.10
>             0:00.86     0:01.06     0:01.11
>             0:00.85     0:01.08     0:01.09
>
>
>             0:01.85     0:02.64     0:02.75
>             0:01.91     0:02.59     0:02.66
> xterm      0:01.78     0:02.63     0:02.63
>             0:01.80     0:02.73     0:02.56
>             0:01.80     0:02.60     0:02.56
>
>
>             0:01.33     0:01.90     0:01.36
>             0:01.34     0:01.41     0:01.41
> gterm      0:01.34     0:01.36     0:01.34
>             0:01.37     0:01.36     0:01.38
>             0:01.37     0:01.41     0:01.39
>
>
>             0:00.62     0:00.80     0:00.68
>             0:00.61     0:00.79     0:00.65
> konsole    0:00.59     0:00.83     0:00.65
>             0:00.59     0:00.83     0:00.65
>             0:00.59     0:00.83     0:00.69
>
>
>
> What are the conclusions?
>
> - Konsole is always faster than gterm. Why planet gnome guys do not post a 
> comparison with its most direct competitor? ... :-(
>
> - xterm is always the slower
>
> - rxvt is always the faster
>
> - xfce is always the faster
>
>
> I love the last conclusion ! ;-) ... but may be it is because it was 
> compiled from source.
>
>
> Final conclusion: Any suposed objective test that claims that the poster 
> is better than the rest, has to be taken with a "most" of salt ... even if 
> they are the gnome guys. (This attitude remembers me of Microsoft) ... :-(
>
>
>
> cheers
>
> Xavier
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