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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif,sco.opendesktop
Subject: Re: SLOWWWWWWW Popups
Keywords: motif popup widgets
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.152616@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 25 Oct 90 22:26:16 GMT
References: <1990Oct25.142436.9581@litwin.com>
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In article <1990Oct25.142436.9581@litwin.com>, vlr@litwin.com (Vic Rice) writes:
|> 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. 

I don't know how much memory you have, but it sounds like a paging
problem.  Motif popups are created when they are realized, so popping
them up means just mapping their windows.  Your problem is probably
that paging in the code that requests the map is very slow.  I suspect
that popping them up the second time will be quite a bit faster, since
the code is already paged in.  In the long run, there's probably not
much you can do about this, aside from getting a faster CPU, faster
disk, or more RAM.

-- 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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