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From: vlr@litwin.com (Vic Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif,sco.opendesktop
Subject: SLOWWWWWWW Popups
Keywords: motif popup widgets
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.142436.9581@litwin.com>
Date: 25 Oct 90 14:24:36 GMT
Organization: Litwin Process Automation, Houston
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My group has been developing a reasonably large Motif application for about
18 months. Over the course of this development a significant problem
has been slowly getting worse. The problem is the ever increasing time
it takes for various popups to come up. 

Our development system:
SCO ODT 1.0.0y
ALR FlexCache 33/386 (Intel 80387 & Weitek)
Paradise VGA Plus
Multisyncing monitor (used in 800x600)

Currently, the size of the load module is over 2 meg, unstripped. Popups
that used to take 1 or 2 sec to appear completely now take as long as
15 sec. These popups contain various children (RowColumn, DrawingArea, etc).
My perception is this degradation has been gradual, as we have added to the
application.

Are we causing this ?? Is there some memory/buffer management techniques
we are overlooking ?

I realize this is a somewhat vague question, but I don't really know where
to start. We are new to X and Motif, so I suspect we are overlooking
something obvious, I hope. I would appreciate any comments.
-- 
Dr. Victor L. Rice
Litwin Process Automation