mattf@cac.washington.edu (Matthew Freedman) (11/29/90)
I have developed a medium size Motif application on a DecStation 3100. It has three seperate windows and a moderate number of pull-down menus, buttons, sliders etc. Today I ran it on a Macintosh IIci, under Mac-X, or more precisely ran it on a DecStation, but displayed it under Mac-X. Everything works, but it is *slow*. I mean real slow. It takes on the order of 5-10 seconds just to pull down a menu. And at least 10 seconds to expose a window. Other standard X clients seem to work reasonably fast, although I haven't tried too many. Does anybody know what the cause of this performance problem might be, and whether it can be remedied? Is it the large number of individual widgets/gadgets that X has to deal with in any application with a nice GUI? Is there something wrong with Motif? Is it just the layering that is going on with Mac-X under finder? Would moving to Motif 1.1 make a difference? Would not running in color make a difference? I haven't tried A/UX yet, has anybody had any experience with Motif displayed in that environment? -- Matt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- = Matthew M. Freedman = = U. of Washington Information Systems mattf@cac.washington.edu = = 4545 15th Ave. NE; 4th Floor (206) 543-5593 = = Seattle, WA 98105 = -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-