Re: oaf async activation

[Mathieu Lacage <mathieu eazel com>]

Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com> writes:

> On 2 Oct 2000, Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> 
> > I am currently working on bugzilla.eazel.com #2131
> > (http://bugzilla.eazel.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2131)
> > 
> > Basically, the fact that activation is synchronous makes the UI
> > completely dead pretty often which is a major pb. I am pretty sure
> > Evolution people might feel concerned about this so, here is my
> > proposal to add a few methods to OAF IDL and some new API.
> >
> > Flames wellcome. If no one raises his hand to bitch about how bad this
> > design is, I will begin working to add this functionality to OAF
> > winthin 2 days...
> 
> This is going to add some non-trivial overhead to the client, which now
> would have to serve the callback object as well.

Well, only if you use the async interface which you are definitely
not obliged to do. 

> 
> I do not think this makes long-term sense in OAF, especially if you are
> just trying to get a tiny gain in GUI responsiveness during CORBA

This is not a "tiny gain". Activating mozilla takes 5 to 10 seconds on my 
machine which is a PIII 700 MHz... The UI is blocked for almost 4 to 7 
seconds which is unaceptable.
Also, nautilus on startup spends a lot of its time in there and the time 
for the display of the first window is directly related to this.

Mahieu

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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu eazel com>