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From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Append menu is slow.
Message-ID: <2016@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 89 05:29:54 GMT
References: <89May9.171757edt.11077@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> <29122@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <30414@apple.Apple.COM> <8905102252.AA29726@snoopy.UMD.EDU>
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
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In article <8905102252.AA29726@snoopy.UMD.EDU> res12@snoopy.UMD.EDU
(Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
>So, how do we avoid the overhead caused by CalcMenuSize? I know of one
>way:  Patch CalcMenuSize to do nothing before all the appends, and patch
>it back before the last append.  But patching traps isn't my favorite thing
>to do either.

Hm. I considered this approach for an XCMD I wrote a while ago. I decided
not to do this because it seems that this would break any ROM fixes that
might be implemented with come-from tests on that trap. Pretty unlikely, to
be sure, but there are better ways (that have already been posted).

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Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}
alexis@rascal.ics.utexas.edu  (last resort)