App on Linux - really slow... any ideas why?

[Richmond Mathewson]

Was your standalone for Linux built FOR Linux on Windows, or transferred 
as a stack onto
the target platform (Linux) and then built as a standalone?

This may seem a bit of a goofy question, but every single time I have 
built a standalone
for a platform on another platform I have ended up with something that 
doesn't function
very well.  Considering the vast difference between Windows and the 
various forms of Linux
I am not surprised.

Ken Ray wrote:
> I've got a basic PC (Dell Dimension 4600 running a P4 at 2.66GHz with 2GB
> RAM) that switch boots between Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04.  I have a pretty
> complex app (my stick figure animaton program "Stykz") that loads about 8
> libraries has  a few front and back scripts and when it opens it displays a
> main window and 4 floating palettes.
>
> The app is built with the Rev 3.5 engine and when I launch it on Windows, it
> takes about 5 seconds from initial launch to idle. When I do this on Ubuntu
> it is agonizingly slow, taking 25-30 seconds to come to an idle state. And
> after this, everything is like molasses - windows take seconds! to redraw,
> mouse messages aren't recognized immediately, etc.
>
> I haven't done much on Linux except StackRunner, which was very lightweight,
> but my overall question is: are there any "gotchas" I should know about
> related to Linux that might account for significantly affecting performance?
>
> TIA,
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
>
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