title: GTK+ (GTKSharp) poor performance in Windows
body: <p>In my Mono (C#) project that is meant to be cross-platform, I am using the GTK for the UI. However one thing I noticed is, on my netbook in Archlinux, the performance is really speedy, so events such as mouse hover, and redrawing of widgets, etc, are really fast.</p>
  
  <p>Compared to windows (7) on dual core CPUs, the performance is really really weak. Which perplexes me.</p>
  
  <p>Am I doing something wrong that is warranting this difference in performance between OSes?</p>
  
  <p>What are some ways I can do to optimize GTK on Windows? Its really bad to take around 0.5 secs for a hover event to kick in whereas its almost immediate on a weak(er) netbook with Linux.</p>
  
  <p>My code is here for the GUI layer: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/subsynct/source/browse/branches/dev/subsync#subsync/GUI" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://code.google.com/p/subsynct/source/browse/branches/dev/subsync#subsync/GUI</a></p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>