From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tooltips GC overhead Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:48:19 +0300 Message-ID: <83h9okx1os.fsf@gnu.org> References: <55B7796B.3070005@gmx.at> <55B87E3F.80708@gmx.at> <55B8E367.9020201@cs.ucla.edu> <55B8F3E9.5000707@gmx.at> <833806yld0.fsf@gnu.org> <55B915CE.7070803@gmx.at> <55B94267.5050208@cs.ucla.edu> <55B9CD5D.8040302@gmx.at> <55B9D017.1000109@cs.ucla.edu> <55B9E8EB.5090402@gmx.at> <83pp39wqkr.fsf@gnu.org> <55BA80CB.9020809@gmx.at> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438325334 27297 80.91.229.3 (31 Jul 2015 06:48:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 06:48:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 31 08:48:41 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZL47U-00041N-P3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 08:48:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43353 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZL47U-0008DZ-4T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 02:48:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38988) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZL47Q-0008D2-G8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 02:48:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZL47K-0005Oy-UG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 02:48:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout26.012.net.il ([80.179.55.182]:41110) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZL47K-0005OU-MZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 02:48:30 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout26.012.net.il by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NSC00G00ALDPS00@mtaout26.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:51:55 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NSC00HPMB2HVT00@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:51:55 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:188222 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:33:33 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > I'm a heavy user of frames, and I've never been satisfied by the time > > needed to create a new frame, so I'd be happy to see some improvement in > > this area. > > I too use frames heavily. And I remember that frame creation > could be slow on UNIX - back in the Dark Ages, at least. But > AFAICT it is nearly instantaneous on MS Windows. Maybe > something can be done at a lower level to speed things up on > other platforms? The code in question runs on all platforms for GUI frames, so it is as slow on Unix as it is fast on Windows.