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From: etaylor@wilkins.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu (Eric Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: GC: how many is too many?
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Date: 28 Nov 90 23:22:14 GMT
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|> 
|> Toolkits such as Motif may have as many as a dozen GCs per widget;
|> top shadow color, bottom shadow color, default font, foreground color, 
|> background color, etc.  Multiply by the number of Widgets in a "typical"
|> application; ours have > one hundred, then multiply by the number of 
|> applications running; two or three dozen.
|> 
|> -- 


This is only partly True.  Widgets using XtGetGC share
their GC's.  You might be suprised to find out there are probably less than a couple dozen per application
using XtGetGC  (I am assuming that the MOTIF widget
set uses XtGetGC).
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					Eric Taylor
					Baylor College of Medicine
					etaylor@wilkins.bmc.tmc.edu
					(713) 798-3776