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

[Richard Gaskin]

Kevin Miller wrote:
> On 5/5/09 21:37, "Bernard Devlin" <bdrunrev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> There are several bugs noted in RQCC about slow performance in Linux.
>> Some of those marked 'fixed'
>> (http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=7273) are fixing
>> symptoms that manifest because of the much slower performance.
>> 
>> I found Rev 3.0 was unusable on Linux, and gave up trying.
> 
> As you'll note from this bug report it was fixed for 3.5. We fixed a lot of
> other issues on Linux for that release too, including a couple of slow
> downs, crashes and memory leaks that occurred under certain window managers.
> Linux has a small market share, is a rapidly moving target and is a large
> and amorphous number of versions. Nonetheless we are committed to supporting
> it and if these issues with Ken's app truly do persist in 3.5 then we will
> take a look at them and sort them out for a future version.


Great news, Kevin.  Thanks for posting that.

I'm going to go update my Linux deployments with the latest engine....

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