Re: New g-wrap supported in guile-gtk--rotty-0.1!

[Andreas Rottmann]

[ CC'd guile-user, since maybe someone has an idea how to implement
  this ]

Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:

> Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> I now get ~3.6 seconds of loading time for (gnome gtk) with the above
>> referenced code, gcc 3.3.2 -O2 and Guile 1.7 on my Athlon 900. The
>> loading time is mostly spent in scm_add_method(), FWIW...
>
> I wonder if some lazy initializing would be possible, like catch a
> failed method dispatch and add only at that time.  (But my ignorance
> of goops is pretty profound, so maybe it's not feasible.)
>
I don't really know. Maybe one could postpone the method creation
until the first instance of that class has been instantiated...

> gtk+gnome is pretty big, there might be a good chance an application
> would use only a modest number of widgets and functions.  Those needed
> to get the first window up could be even fewer.  (Always good to get
> the first window up quickly, since the user is waiting, waiting ...)
>
Yes, I also think that we *have* to get the "time-to-initial-window"
at least under 1 second for a hello world program...

Andy
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