Davyd Madeley has released a “coming soon features list” of Gnome 2.14.
Really interesting new features for Gnome users:
Speed improvement in Memory Allocation System (Gnome use a dedicated subsystem for this stuff), using a new mem-allocator called GSlice (follow a benchmark), and in Font Rendering (Gnome Terminal will be fastest of XTerm 8O )
some Administrative tools
improvement to the integrated search system (expecially for Beagle-Enabled linux-box)
Metacity improvement (it will use OpenGL… but I don’t know if this means the integration with Xgl/Compiz)
… and much more
Here, a little benchmark for the new mem-allocator:
Performance comparison of GMemChunk (older allocator), Malloc and GSlice with 1, 5, 10 and 20 threads each doing 1 million allocations and deallocations of a GList.
Source, OSSBlog.