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From: murthy@svax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: new Xtool distrib, and Xmh in particular
Message-ID: <1129@svax.cs.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 23-Mar-87 20:39:36 EST
Article-I.D.: svax.1129
Posted: Mon Mar 23 20:39:36 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Mar-87 04:36:22 EST
Reply-To: murthy@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Chet Murthy)
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Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY
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I got the Xtool distribution from decwrl recently, and playing around with
the xedit and xmh, I noticed that they both are EXTREMELY slow.  I was
running my server on an RT, and running the applications on a uVax (4.3bsd).
The first thing I noticed was that xmh couldn't understand how to show a
message (I hit the view button, and no message showed up in the edit window).
In fact, nothing I tried could get it to display a message.  Perhaps I just
wasn't trying enough things.  At any rate, the Xtool toolkit appears to be
GODAWFULLY slow.  And I do mean SLOW.  The xmh distribution was slower than
GNUemacs remote, and the xedit application was pathetically slow.  I really
don't understand why they were so slow, but if this is the case with all
the code that is written for this new toolkit, it seems like there is
no hope if it becoming widespread.  Now, I know that people are going to
flame me for saying that, but consider that I basically had a uVaxII
to myself, and xedit, a "toy" application, was still too slow for me to
consider using it as a real tool.
So: does anybody else out there have experience with the new toolkit, and
have any opinions about its speed/lack thereof?


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SnailMail:		Chet Murthy
			Gaslight Village Apts 21-B
			Uptown Road
			Ithaca, NY 14850
Office:			4162 Upson (607) 255-2219
MaBellNet:		(607)-257-5709