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From: victoria@hera.Sbi.Com (Victoria S. Drozdov)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: OpenWindows Application Performance
Message-ID: <508@aurora.hera.Sbi.Com>
Date: 6 Mar 91 16:25:52 GMT
References: <91064.091157ABALDI@ESOC.BITNET>
Organization: Fulcrum - Salomon Brothers, NY
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In article <91064.091157ABALDI@ESOC.BITNET>, ABALDI@ESOC.BITNET writes:
> I have a Sparcstation 1+ running Sun Os 4.03 and Openwindow 2.0.
> 
> My feeling is that X-applications (and I mean applications which use the
> X server part) are quite slow.
> 
> Applications which need to create DYNAMICALLY a lot of widgets (e.g 2
> or 3 hundred) seem to spend a lot of time both in the toolkit
> and in the server.
> 
>    Andrea Baldi (abaldi@esoc.bitnet)

We just ran into a similar problem with Openwin on Sparc 1+.

We found that Openwin has a problem dealing with VisibilityNotify
events. Simply turning off the VisibilityChangeMask on all our
widgets/windows solved the problem. Try that one out.






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