RE: CD-ROM drive

[vp@example.com (Viktor Pavlenko)]

Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

>last time I used it, it made my system as slow as Windows.  It has a lot of
>overhead, being coded in C++, which is a less efficient language than C is.

5% performance penalty for the beauty of C++. My impression is
that Qt is very good.

>All the GNOME stuff is built in C, and in my opinion, it's written better
>and it looks better.

It's C using OO design (=horror)

>It certainly has better performance on my UNIX boxes,
>and I have quite a few...

So if this is true, the reason lies elsewhere, probably in the applications.

Viktor