Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!sgi!shinobu!odin!ramoth.esd.sgi.com!msc From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: Motif & GL Message-ID: <1991Jan2.201816.5877@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 2 Jan 91 20:18:16 GMT References: <29333@shamash.cdc.com> <1990Dec21.223210.17311@odin.corp.sgi.com> Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Reply-To: msc@sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Entry Systems Division Lines: 25 In article , mg@ (Mike Gigante) writes: |> msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) writes: |> |> >Incidentally I recommend you not use the OSF/Motif toolkit. It's a pig. |> >Currently the minimum application size in 1 megabyte and it takes 5 seconds |> >for the app. to start up. We will do our best to improve those figures |> >before 4.0 is released but it's largely out of our control. |> |> Just to clarify this: |> |> Are you saying that this is an interim problem that is likely to |> dissapear? Or are you saying it is inherent in OSF/Motif? |> I'm saying its a problem inherent in the OSF/Motif toolkit and the folks working on it here will do their best to mitigate its impact. Only OSF can really solve Motif's size and performance problems. One of our people who is noted for writing lean and super fast code was so disgusted he was moved to write his own small toolkit for a job he had to do. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc "Spirits of genius are always opposed by mediocre minds" - Albert Einstein