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

[Bernard Devlin]

Thanks for putting the issues in a context.  It does go some way to
explaining why some of us have had such a bad experience of Rev on
Linux.

Bernard

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> I think what happened was Motif died. :)
>
> MC was originally built around emulated appearances, and only migrated to
> native appearances in the late '90s with Mac OS.  Later versions of the
> Windows and more recently the Linux engines now also use native appearances,
> but the overhead of integrating the engine's internals with these
> generalized systems is far greater than being able to handle everything
> itself.
>
> When there was only Motif, life was easy.  But that was a long time ago, and
> today shipping anything using the Motif lookAndFeel looks really dated.
>