Hello folks, I am evaluating the performance of the ROOT with Qt layer ( http://root.bnl.gov ) vs. the regular ROOT with X11 layer (UNIX) Using the well-known $ROOTSYS/tutorials/benchmarks.C ROOT macro I got on my machine some figures as follows, (This is exactly the same machine and exactly the same ROOT shared libraries. The only difference is the ROOT resource file) 1. ALL QT GUI layers On - 540 ROOTMARKS 2. Lower level QT GUI layers On - 340 ROOTMARKS 3. No Qt layer, X11 layer On - 104 ROOTMARKS. (This is just the well-known old ROOT) I would like to understand what a cause of the difference is and need some assistance from the ROOT community. I would appreciate a lot if people could install Qt layer and run the root benchmarks test 3 times and send me the result to compile. Please add to your report the extra information about your X-client/X-server connection. Is it 1. "local desktop" - which one for example KDE. GHOME 2. X-terminal / eXceed/ other X-terminal emulator on Windows platform 3. Your network bandwidth. Tell me what your Qt version is and whether it was built with XFT font support. (if you know of course) Please feel free yourself to send me any other tests you may have performed. (and BUGs, there should be a lot of them) Please don't pollute the "roottalk". Send me your report directly fine@bnl.gov I'll compile them and present the summary. To install ROOT with Qt layer or to add Qt layer to your existent ROOT installation you can use the script http://root.bnl.gov/QtRoot/root/root.diff/qtUtil/installQtRoot.sh or just try to follow the guidance http://root.bnl.gov/QtRoot/How2Install4Unix.html To test create 3 directories. mkdir rootqt mkdir rootqtgui mkdir rootx11 Configure each directory to use the different GUI layers http://root.bnl.gov/QtRoot/QtRoot.html#switch and copy there the tutorials directory for example cd rootqt lndir $ROOTSYS/tutorials/ . ln -s $ROOTSYS/root.diff/config/unix.rootrcqtroot root benchmarks.C to tune only the low level Qt layer. cd rootqtgui lndir $ROOTSYS/tutorials/ . ln -s $ROOTSYS/root.diff/config/unix.rootrc root benchmarks.C to make all Qt layers ON. cd rootqtgui lndir $ROOTSYS/tutorials/ . root benchmarks.C to run the standard ROOT with no Qt at all. Valeri Fine Brookaven National Laboratiory P.O.Box 5000 Upton, NY 11973-5000 ----- Phone: +1 631 344 7806 Fax: +1 631 344 4206 E-mail: fine@bnl.gov
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