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

[Xavier Otazu]

	Hello:

	Sorry for annoying again with this topic, but I've some more
testing in a more "uniform" environtment. That is, I performed again
the same tests, but in a FreeBSD system which has been completely
compiled from source (ala Gentoo) using the same CFLAGS-family options.
It allows to compare performances between source codes compiled using
the (approximately) same compiler options. This time I added Terminal
to the terminals.


Gnome v2.12, KDE v3.5, and XFCE v4.2.3.2.

rxvt v2.6.4, xterm 206, gnome-terminal v2.12.0, konsole v1.6 and
Terminal 0.2.4 (libexo 0.3.0).

           XFCE         KDE        GNOME
          =======     =======     ======

          0:01.54     0:01.63     0:01.57
          0:01.53     0:01.65     0:01.58
rxvt      0:01.53     0:01.67     0:01.56
          0:01.55     0:01.64     0:01.56
          0:01.54     0:01.68     0:01.52
       
          0:08.01     0:08.01     0:08.08
          0:08.00     0:07.98     0:08.14
xterm     0:07.97     0:07.99     0:08.05
          0:07.90     0:07.96     0:08.04
          0:07.96     0:07.97     0:08.09
       
          0:07.36     0:07.35     0:07.78
          0:07.23     0:07.36     0:07.85
gterm     0:07.42     0:07.56     0:07.96
          0:07.43     0:07.30     0:07.95
          0:07.48     0:07.26     0:07.75

          0:06.84     0:06.54     0:06.74
          0:06.61     0:06.58     0:06.80
konsole   0:06.85     0:06.60     0:06.75
          0:06.74     0:06.61     0:06.90
          0:06.68     0:06.59     0:06.81

          0:04.28     0:04.22     0:04.38
          0:04.21     0:04.10     0:04.38
Terminal  0:04.28     0:04.11     0:04.36
          0:04.38     0:04.16     0:04.37
          0:04.27     0:04.18     0:04.40


	This time, given a terminal, execution times of different
desktop environtments are very similar. Hence, no advantage for
XFCE ... :-(

	Again, rxvt is by far the fastest terminal and xterm the
slower. Konsole is faster than gterm, and Terminal wins
them! :-)

	Curious: gterm is slightly faster in KDE than in GNOME !

	Hence, in a second round, konsole wins again gnome-terminal
(opposed to what gnome guys claim).


	Some fo you tell that user never executes a stupid "time
cat /usr/share/dict/words" command. You are right, but this reasoning
invalidates any benchmark you perform on a computer, since you never
executes 'stupid' benchmarks on a computer as a usual task. Benchmarks
are benchmarks. If they are not stupid because they are not benchmarks.


cheers

Xavier