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From: masa@hpsciz.HP.COM (Masayoshi Habu)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: SLOWWWWWWW Popups
Message-ID: <13270002@hpsciz.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 90 18:25:22 GMT
References: <1990Oct25.142436.9581@litwin.com>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara, CA
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Creating a dialog with lots of children is a memory-intensive operation.
There are two suggestions for slow dialog creation. One is to avoid
creating dialogs as much as possible. This means that whenever it is
possible to reuse a dialog, do it. You probably can create a dialog
when your program starts up, and use just map/unmap calls. The other
is to use a faster memory allocation library. The original C malloc()
was designed to use less memory while sacrificing time. A fast malloc()
library might be available on your system which uses more memory, but
less time. Another reason to avoid creating dialogs (widgets) was that
XtDestroyWidget() used to cause memory leaks which eventually eat up
all your memory and kill a process. Motif 1.1 and new Xt library has
fix for this.

Masa Habu