Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com) [LWN.net]

Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 21, 2007 18:56 UTC (Wed) by kreijack (guest, #43513)
In reply to: Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com) by drag
Parent article: Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com)

My tests:

konsole: time python -c "print 'a'*10000000"
[...]
real 0m4.268s
user 0m0.040s
sys 0m0.120s

xterm: time python -c "print 'a'*10000000"
[...]
real 0m17.486s
user 0m0.032s
sys 0m0.220s

gnome-terminal: time python -c "print 'a'*10000000"
[...]
real 0m38.939s
user 0m0.036s
sys 0m0.132s

The tests was performed on a AMD Sempron 3000+, on a [k]ubuntu
edgy. The DE was kde; the graphics adapter was a NVidia GeForce 5200. The
font are the same under gnome-terminal and konsole (Bitstream Vera Sans
Mono 12pt); under xterm the font was the "huge" and the windows size was
the same of the other two console.

I repeated the test several times, and konsole requires about 4-6 seconds;
xterm requires 15-18 seconds; and gnome-terminal requires 38-40 seconds.

Goffredo

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