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The reason for Lila being so much slower is most likely because it uses SVG images for all the icons, instead of regular pixmaps like most other themes. We chose SVG because of it's scalability and even developed a suite of tools that let us recolor them on the fly (http://programmer-art.org/?page=svg-utils) using simple XML files. (those scripts work for all SVG files, not just the Lila icons!)

To my knowledge nobody has done speed tests on Lila, and perhaps it would be a good idea to try and optimize the themes somehow. Our main goals thus far have been theme completion and getting all the different themes together.

I would expect that as librsvg improves the speed of Lila will also improve.