Re: Beta: Call for testing

Madeleine D. wrote:

I setup and ran the 2.6.9 zip version on one of our Win98SE's. Went very smooth on the install. Nice job. Only thing that struck me is that the demo seemed a little slow to load. I had an earlier version from Steph that only took about 4 secs; this one took 8 secs. No big deal. Just a note for what it's worth. I'll carve out some time in the next few days to test the Gtk2 app I'm working on. thanks, Madeleine D. Actually that slowdown is not limited to just the 2.6.9 libs - I've also noticed a gradual slowdown as well but I have no idea what's causing it. The biggest slowdown happened when jumping from PHP 5.1.x to 5.2.x - this is built against PHP 5.2.3 right now. I can try a build against the 5.1.x branch to see if the slowdown is something php-gtk2 is doing or if it's something PHP is doing - but probably not until this weekend.

And as Steph said (in something that just popped into my mailbox) I can do a non-zts build which is 30% faster or more. (If you're really brave I can do a MSVC8 build as well which really speeds things up - cli doesn't have any of the extension loading issues with the newer compiler that plagued other SAPIS - however I'm not sure how nice MSVC8 plays with WIN95/98) I also am doing "stock builds" atm - I can start chopping out stuff in PHP that php-gtk2 really doesn't use (session? json?) as well to save size (I have no idea if it affects speed)