Re: Attempt to measure performance of popping up menus

[Milen Dzhumerov <gamehack 1nsp1r3d co uk>]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 17:43 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> Hi Milen,
> 
> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 16:15 +0000, Milen Dzhumerov wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I tried to measure the time spent in popping up menus in Gedit and doing
> > the same in Kate. The results are here -
> > http://www.1nsp1r3d.co.uk/work/gnome/performance/menubarmenus/. Any
> > comments are welcome.
> 
> Apart from the theme issue correctly pointed out by Frederic, there's
> the contents of the menus: the File menu in Gedit is dynamically built
> with the list of recently opened documents, while in Kate the same list
> is hidden inside a sub-menu.  The code that manages the recent documents
> list is known to suck, performance-wise, and that is why is going to be
> deprecated in the next release cycle.
> 
> Ciao,
>  Emmanuele.
> 

That was one of the things which I thought make it slower. I'll redo the
tests with some menus which are not dynamically populated.

Thanks