Achieve Pidsley Level (Rape my RAM)

[DebianJoe]

In the quest to find out the best way to compare gtk engines, I ran across GtkPerf and some tests on speed that had already been done, albeit on totally different hardware. Although this is geared more towards speed than how large to footprint of each one is.

The other option I'm considering is to use `ps` to test how much memory is allocated to a process, to see if there are trends in running the same programs, but with alternating gtk engines. It's not going to be as simple to create a "Pidsley-score" for this particular query.

[DebianJoe]

Okay, so here's some rendering numbers for the sake of seeing how this does play out:

Mist
GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Sat Sep 28 13:21:48 2013

GtkEntry - time: 0.04
GtkComboBox - time: 0.59
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 0.47
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.09
GtkProgressBar - time: 0.06
GtkToggleButton - time: 0.10
GtkCheckButton - time: 0.09
GtkRadioButton - time: 0.13
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 0.34
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.11
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 0.55
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 1.12
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 1.02
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 0.14
---
Total time: 4.87

Murrine
GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Sat Sep 28 13:23:27 2013

GtkEntry - time: 0.04
GtkComboBox - time: 0.68
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 0.57
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.09
GtkProgressBar - time: 0.07
GtkToggleButton - time: 0.11
GtkCheckButton - time: 0.09
GtkRadioButton - time: 0.13
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 0.34
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.11
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 0.55
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 1.19
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 1.05
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 0.15
---
Total time: 5.18

CleanIce
GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Sat Sep 28 13:27:00 2013

GtkEntry - time: 0.06
GtkComboBox - time: 0.62
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 0.70
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.07
GtkProgressBar - time: 0.03
GtkToggleButton - time: 0.07
GtkCheckButton - time: 0.07
GtkRadioButton - time: 0.07
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 0.34
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.11
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 0.70
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 1.15
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 1.04
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 0.13
---
Total time: 5.16

Crux
GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Sat Sep 28 13:27:45 2013

GtkEntry - time: 0.04
GtkComboBox - time: 0.77
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 0.63
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.11
GtkProgressBar - time: 0.10
GtkToggleButton - time: 0.17
GtkCheckButton - time: 0.11
GtkRadioButton - time: 0.17
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 0.34
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.15
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 0.56
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 1.11
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 1.03
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 0.14

Total time: 5.44


......so, MB is right, the Mist engine does actually render faster than other engines that I have tested. I noticed that I didn't get the same results as the posted tester when it came to using ClearIce. Mist was significantly faster in benchmarks than the other options I tested.

*edit: now removing gtk-engines/gtk-themes/gtk-etc from this install. Next question?

[machinebacon]

Thanks Joe, nice to have it in numbers, and surprising to see how well (relatively) the Murrine engine performs.

'ps' does anyway stand for Pidsley Score ;) Well, what could be next? The shells maybe?
sh/csh/fish/dash/ksh/zsh/bash - and I am pretty sure there'll be some surprises.

[DebianJoe]

Getting on the shells as we speak, will post ASAP. ;)

[DebianJoe]

echo $SHELL | {unbloat()}

It's worth noting that these are NOT configured shell numbers. I didn't import my personal .zshrc or .bashrc, which I'm sure would make at least a bit of difference. This is a simple "chsh <whatever_shell>" cold reboot test, with an instant "free" on boot. I try to remove as much user input as possible.

Shell Pidsley-Scores

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zsh  = 0
bash = 424
fish = 1960
ksh  = 2020
csh  = 2936
dash = 3068
sh   = 3300

edit: whoa, whoa....did fish beat bash? Ummmmm....that doesn't make sense at all.

[GekkoP]

sh is impressive, using it as login shell I can drop up to 6-7MB of RAM.