I tried to get the new version of conky to replace the old one, i'm not sure why it let you put both at the same time. The 1.6 version would have been slower, but if you think this one is faster than the 1.9.7 from the garage as well... I'm not too sure. Maybe I accidentally built the old one in debug mode or something.

It's probably my #1 most used app too, but I can't tell the speed because I'm using lots of lua and cairo in my conf file. It takes about 3 or 4 passes to start drawing everything for some reason.