Re: Reworked qt terminal is much faster!

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 02/02/2014 01:32 PM, sfeam wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recall from several past threads on the list that some people have been
> avoiding the qt terminal because its rendering speed, particularly for
> interactive 3D plots, was slower than x11 or wxt.
>
> Jérôme Lodewyck's recent revisions to the qt driver have changed that
> dramatically.   Here are timing for the execution of "all.dem" under linux
> (64-bit, qt5).   I see about the same improvement for 32-bit, qt4.
>
> 4.7 all.dem
> ===========
>                    	     user  system   clock
> 4.7  qt (old)	  4.973u 0.433s 0:24.91 21.6%
> 4.7 x11		  5.623u 1.364s 0:20.40 34.2%
> 4.7 wxt		13.845u 1.239s 0:15.58 96.7%
> 4.7  qt (new)	  4.925u 0.427s 0:07.95 67.1%

Looks good.  What are "user" and "system"?

Dan