Re: X11_ymax_saved artifact in x11.trm... not

[Juhász P. <pet...@gm...>]

On Sun, 2014-03-09 at 10:27 -0500, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 03/09/2014 07:23 AM, Juhász Péter wrote:
> 
> > To reinforce this last point:
> > There are places (servers, offline machines for special purposes like
> > industrial control etc.) where installing all the dependencies of the
> > newer interactive terminals is hard or not possible at all. For these
> > situations, it's good to still have an option to work interactively with
> > a terminal that depends on X and little else.
> >
> > That said, I can confirm that the Qt terminal now feels about as fast as
> > the X11 one, while being much more comfortable and prettier.
> >
> > Peter
> 
> Péter, what version of Qt are you using?  I'm not experiencing this 
> grand boost in Qt efficiency with version 4.7.4 that everyone is talking 
> about.
> 
> Dan

4.8.1, on an Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit system.

I doubt it depends on Qt version differences, though: I experienced the
same speedup on my work machine, which uses Centos, with a different
version of Qt (I don't have access to it right now to tell which one
exactly).
But the speedup, at least subjectively, can indeed be described as
grand: for a gnuplot version from last November it took 30 seconds or so
to plot a file with ~70k lines, whereas it takes less than 2 with the
current CVS head.
I know that one anecdote does not make data, but for me the performance
boost looks solid and real.

Peter