Programmer Productivity Shootout

Hi,

As some of you might know, I have two applications, written in different GUI-Tookits. One is the Gungirl Sequencer that uses wxWidgets and the Open Movie Editor that’s based around FLTK.

These two applications are of approximatly equal complexity. Let’s take a little peek at how long it takes to compile each of them.

OpenME (FLTK): user 0m25.693s
Ggseq (wxWidgets): user 2m10.495s

Well, it seems as if we do have indeed a slight difference (FLTK is ~5 times faster).

Of course wxWidgets is a fine framework, every once in while I find myself implementing a feature from wx thats missing in fltk. However, compile time performance is programmer productivity, and therefore my preference is clear.

-Richard

No Responses to “Programmer Productivity Shootout”

1. Mart Raudsepp Says:
   January 13th, 2006 at 19:49

   And as a user, I prefer non-ugly looks appearing as the rest of my apps. So my preferences are clear aswell

2. oracle Says:
   January 14th, 2006 at 0:19

   Couldn’t care less, …., oh, wait, I LOVE that old school style win95 look

   -Richard

3. markinfo Says:
   April 16th, 2007 at 19:36

   And what about Ultimate++ ?
   http://www.ultimatepp.org

4. oracle Says:
   April 17th, 2007 at 15:48

   Hi,
   I know about Ultimate++, but I never really tried it.

   -Richard

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