Re: [GtkGLExt] GtkGLExt in a Mozilla plug-in

[Alif Wahid <alif wahid gmail com>]

I would think this approach needs to be applied to many other GObject
based libraries that are dynamically loaded and unloaded. This
approach does have a performance penalty at startup you see, since the
call to g_type_from_name is an expensive one.

alif.


On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 22:11:22 -0500, Braden McDaniel
<braden endoframe com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 03:47 +1300, Alif Wahid wrote:
> 
> 
> > > gcc (3.4.2) doesn't like that:
> > >
> > >         ../../gdk/gdkglconfig.c:37: error: initializer element is not constant
> >
> > Hmm...I forgot about that. Cheers.
> >
> > > The good news, though, is that this approach does indeed appear to fix
> > > my problem. It would be great if the attached patch could be applied. It
> > > would be even better if a new release could be made incorporating it.
> >
> > Really! That's interesting cause I would've thought that all the other
> > classes have to be patched in the same way before your problem could
> > be fixed. Does no other class fail because of this problem?
> 
> Well, it's entirely probable that my app makes less than exhaustive use
> of GtkGLExt. But so far, so good. However, repeating this pattern
> elsewhere in the library is probably a good idea.
> 
> 
> 
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