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Subject: Re: Re Motif Text Widget Performance Problems
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Date: 12 Oct 90 14:16:35 GMT
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Thanks for your advice.  It is helpful.

1) The fact that shared cursors are affected by different colors
   has occurred to me, and it looks like Motif didn't take that
   into account (or else I haven't spotted how they do it yet).
   But I have an idea for solving that problem.

2) The idea of creating one of each type of form hadn't occurred
   to me, but with (if I remember right) over 800 forms, I'm
   skeptical whether that will be something we could do.  Perhaps
   we could maintain a cache of forms...hmm.

3) We've demonstrated how much faster R4 is, but for the moment
   we're stuck with R3.  We do expect to field the application with
   R4.

4) We are aware of the two "essential widget speed hacks" -- we've
   already done manage-children, and will probably get around to
   malloc when it becomes a significant problem in our application
   (right now, the X server requests are the #1 problem).

Again, thanks -- you've confirmed much of my thinking, and
given me more ideas.

--- Dave