Re: (severe) performance issues

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 13:58 -0700, David J. Andruczyk wrote:
> > Updating textual information 30x a second (2007-March/msg00116)
> > does not make any sense though.
> > 
> > Yeti
> 
> It does when you're monitoring a realtime datalogging system, and
> don't want to have gaps  or slow response in the updates. (there
> are also graphical monitors as well,  but the text is there for a
> precise reading)

But you can't perceive changes in text 30 times in a second, so there's
no point in showing that to a human. If you want to log the details for
later (slower) perusal then you can do that, independently of any
GtkLabel.

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