[rescue] Re: [SunHELP] Solaris 9, First thoughts

[dave at cca.org]

jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu writes:

>Well, I haven't profiled it, so I'm just spitting ideas, but I think it might
>have something to do with trying to use ORBit for message passing between 
>objects rather than call them directly.  Or, maybe it has something to do 
>with how sloppy they can be.  Alan Cox profiled one of the worst programs
>(Nautilus) and found that it kept reloading the same font file hundreds and
>hundreds of times.  I don't know what else could be causing problems, but
>just watching the output from pan is extremely appaling.  In a typical pan
>session, hundreds of asserts fail.

I saw a windows program that reloaded font info from disk for each update, as
you dragged a piece of text around the screen.

$600 software.

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