Improving Application GUI Speed

[Randolf Schultz]

Hello,

please help me getting my application up to speed on MacOSX/Aqua.
It runs fine on Linux/X11, Win32, and even MacOSX/X11. Only on
MacOSX/Aqua it crawls.

Want to have a look first?
Go to

http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=28460&sel_platform=4542

(or http://www.ayam3d.org/download.html)

get both variants (MacOSX/X11 and MacOSX/Aqua).

Already the application startup is 2-3s (Linux/X11) vs. 10-15s
(MacOSX/Aqua); from then on the MacOSX version is unusably
slow, especially when drawing the scrollable GUIs for the object
properties (those are implemented as window in a canvas).
Another problem area are the pane widgets, that may be dragged
quite fine on X11, but on Aqua they do one hop every 1-2s (and
this is _without_ continuous re-packing the GUI, only dragging
the pane handle, which is a simple packed frame IIRC!).

The Linux/X11 and MacOSX/Aqua variants were test-run on the
very same machine (MacMini-PPC)!

So how would you proceed to tackle this problem?
Is there an easy way to profile such complex scenarios with Tcl/Tk?

best regards,
Randolf

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[Revar Desmera]

If you download http://www.belfry.com/code/profile.tcl, and add a  
'source profile.tcl' to the beginning of your program, when the  
program finishes, it'll dump a very detailed timing profile of your  
code to tclprof.txt, which you can use to determine what to optimize.  
The report format is very close to that of gprof.

        - Revar



On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:10 AM, Randolf Schultz wrote:

> Hello,
>
> please help me getting my application up to speed on MacOSX/Aqua.
> It runs fine on Linux/X11, Win32, and even MacOSX/X11. Only on
> MacOSX/Aqua it crawls.
>
> Want to have a look first?
> Go to
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=28460&sel_platform=4542
>
> (or http://www.ayam3d.org/download.html)
>
> get both variants (MacOSX/X11 and MacOSX/Aqua).
>
> Already the application startup is 2-3s (Linux/X11) vs. 10-15s
> (MacOSX/Aqua); from then on the MacOSX version is unusably
> slow, especially when drawing the scrollable GUIs for the object
> properties (those are implemented as window in a canvas).
> Another problem area are the pane widgets, that may be dragged
> quite fine on X11, but on Aqua they do one hop every 1-2s (and
> this is _without_ continuous re-packing the GUI, only dragging
> the pane handle, which is a simple packed frame IIRC!).
>
> The Linux/X11 and MacOSX/Aqua variants were test-run on the
> very same machine (MacMini-PPC)!
>
> So how would you proceed to tackle this problem?
> Is there an easy way to profile such complex scenarios with Tcl/Tk?
>
> best regards,
> Randolf
>
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