haynes@decwrl.DEC.COM.UUCP (03/26/87)
I thought I'd put in my two cents about the resource manager. First of all, I should say that I'm the person who designed and implemented it. When I did the first implementation, I *knew* it was going to be slow, in fact there are exponential (!) algorithms buried inside. Roughly half of Xmh's startup time is due to the resource manager. After working on the resource manager, we got the total startup time for Xmh from roughly 11 seconds to around 6. The time spent in actual resource manager database code is now negligible, the remaining resource manager time is being spent in actually obtaining requested resources from the server. In conclusion: the (current) resource manager is a pig, we realize it, and have fixed it. The toolkit on Decwrl is for demonstration purposes, and the "real" toolkit will be on X11. We're also working on the documentation... :-) "It's fixed in the next version" -- Charles P.S. I'm glad you like it, Paul.