Re: [gtk-list] Re: X and idles => incredible slowdowns

[Deborah Swayne <dfs research att com>]

On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 08:31:49PM -0400, Deborah Swayne wrote:
> > Instead of using an idle function, make your function myidle() a
> > timeout with a very short delay (say 30 or 40ms), while increasing
> > your step size.
> 
> I'll try Jon's suggestion above; I'm not proud.  But I'm puzzled.
> Why should gtk be so much slower than X?

And sure enough, the timeout method has the best performance of
the three.  Thanks, Jon.

Debby