Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dynsim1!vlr
From: vlr@litwin.com (Vic Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif,sco.opendesktop
Subject: Re: SLOWWWWWWW Popups
Keywords: motif popup widgets
Message-ID: <1990Oct26.143712.17822@litwin.com>
Date: 26 Oct 90 14:37:12 GMT
References: <1990Oct25.142436.9581@litwin.com> <8417@scolex.sco.COM>
Organization: Litwin Process Automation, Houston
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mikep@sco.COM (Mike Patnode) writes:

>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. 
>>
>For starters, be sure you are linking with -lmalloc.  This is a big win
>for memory performance.  Note that libmalloc is a much more stringent
>about misuse of memory than libc.

>Also, whenever possible try to hide Popup menus via XtPopdown(),
>rather than creating and destroying them each time they are used.
>This may be obvious.

>Hope that helps.

Many  many  thanks,  Mike. The -lmalloc was right on the money.
Adding  -lmalloc  made a drastic improvement in the performance
of  several  aspects  of  our  application, not just popups. We
were doing XtPopdown() via a Motif call.

I  hope  anyone  developing  Motif  apps  under  SCO  ODT  pays
attention to this. It makes a SIGNIFICANT difference.

God, I love USENET.
-- 
Dr. Victor L. Rice
Litwin Process Automation