On Jul 2, 2004, at 9:26 PM, beer wrote:

>  Tested Komodo professional, version 3.0.0-beta4, build 104847.
>  On Mandrake 10 with Gnome Desktop and KDE installed.
> 
>  It's working fine, though it's slower with mouse and keyboard input 
>  than
>  KDevelop3's new php editor (which has code complete and intellisense on
>  php projects now). It's noticibly slower than A normal text editor like
>  Gedit UI editor or vi as well.
> 
>  Right now I'd say it's too slow to actually use. I'm running Mandrake
>  10.0 on a 1 Ghz Celeron with 256 MgRam. I hope to see this product
>  improve in performance in the near future because Komodo 2.5 would not
>  run on Mandrake at all.

You're kidding, right?  I use Komodo 2.5 on Mandrake 10 and 9.2.  It 
most definitely runs.

>  Could the speed problem be handled by just making most of the app with 
>  C
>  and GLib then tarring the source and letting us compile on our target
>  machines with ./configure, make and make install?

I don't think you'll ever see this... =)  Kinda defeats the purpose of 
it being a closed source proprietary product.  (Although I would not 
complain if they did give us the source because then I could compile it 
on my mac and use it there as well!)

>  It seems like a sensible solution to me if there's not too much UI to
>  rewrite. GTK+ widgets are pretty fast, and C runs well under Linux. You
>  could save alot of abstraction time on mouse and keyboard interupts
>  maybe,
> 
>  At any rate, when the product is ready for realtime use, I will give it
>  another go. Keep up the good work please.

I've noticed it's a little slow, but not unuseable slow.  I would 
suspect more it's debugging code being active during the betas than 
anything else, although I could be wrong.

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