Re: Some cut,copy and paste thoughts

[Mark Leisher <mleisher crl nmsu edu>]

    Damian> That is interesting code, I'll have to try and figure it out! Up
    Damian> until now I only been doing the 1st check. What is the performance
    Damian> hit on this? Does it have to contact the owner to get the info?
    Damian> Either way my comment is still the same, it would be really nice
    Damian> to have a gdk wrapper around the whole thing.

Yes, there is a performance hit, but since I'm only getting 4 bytes at a time.
And even if it has to contact the owner the delay is not really noticeable.

One thing that I've found to be a problem is the continual allocation and
deallocation.  Certain versions of certain OS's crash because of this after
running the application for long periods of time (days).  Using the
accelerators avoids this problem.
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