3.0 for Linux is 8% slower than 2.6.1 ?

[Bernard Devlin]

As I can notice several flickerings of IDE components with 3.0 in Linux, yet
in Vista the same flickerings are much faster (and therefore barely
noticeable), I wondered if there was some speed difference between the old
and the new versions of the engines.  I threw together a quick test that
seems to show that there is an 8% slowdown in the newer Linux version.

I've entered it as a bug, and if anyone else would like to correct my
results, the stack is attached to the bug report:
http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=7274

When I ran the same test stack on Vista, there seems to be a 30% increase in
speed between 2.7.4 and 3.0.  Incidentally, I had to use the u3 2.7.4
version of Revolution on Vista, since they've decided to only give us direct
access to the latest versions on each platform.  Maybe 2.7.4 for u3 is much
slower than 2.6.1 for Windows, but I don't have any old versions here to
test out.

All the tests were done with no other applications but Rev running.

Bernard