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Re:Qtile 0.5 released – pure Python tiling WM by piffey on Monday November 12, 2012 @04:43AM (#4772168)
I avoided qtile awhile ago because of performance issues I read about when compared with awesome and xmonad. Anyone know about a change on that front? As someone who spends a lot of time in python I would prefer a python tiling wm, but I cannot find any performance benchmarks with the latest versions of qtile.
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Re:Qtile 0.5 released – pure Python tiling WM by tych0 on Monday November 12, 2012 @10:23AM (#4773144)
What kind of performance benchmarks are you looking for? There used to be some memory leaks in xpyb (the X interface qtile uses), but 1.3.1 addresses most of those I believe.

Other than that, I'm not sure anyone has ever reported any performance problems.

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Re:Qtile 0.5 released – pure Python tiling WM by mharrison on Monday November 12, 2012 @09:13AM (#4772877)
I used Awesome for about a year or so before qtile and haven't noticed any performance differences.
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