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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: WHITE PAPER: Enhancing the X resource file syntax
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Date: 26 Sep 90 13:44:38 GMT
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    The "-" operator would save lots of typing.

Resources should seldom be typed by hand. :-)

    It would increase readability.

Resources should seldom be edited by textual reading. :-)

    But  small
    improvements  keep  adding, and we all are desperately looking for ways to
    improve Xt applications startup performance.

So far, we haven't found that loading resource contributes very significantly
to the startup time (except when sucking a resource property from an X terminal
over a serial line :-).  Our current work on XrmGetFileDatabase (which I think
has already sped it up by a factor of 2?) didn't have much affect, that I recall.
Other trivial changes to Xt have had considerably more effect, and other
non-trivial changes will have even more effect.

Your wish is noted, but right now I (at least) am much more interested in simple
changes to Xrm that increase functionality.