On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 20:57:03 -0400 dan sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> > On 1-Aug-08, at 8:46 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > >> There is also a bug in Edje that has bitten us in Ewl a few times > >> where re-using Edje objects seems to cause strange things to hang > >> around. I believe pfritz was the last person to look into this so he > >> might have some more information. > > > > yeah - i remember this. as such - it is a bug that needs fixing. re- > > using edje > > objects i dont think actually buys you much compared to re-using... > > considering > > the overhead of setup. :) > > When we put in the original object cache in Ewl it was a big win for > us in terms of performance when we started to add a lot of widgets to > the application. Nathan would be better to give specifics of the > speedup as he did the actual work. I don't know if Edje/Evas has sped > up in the last while so we wouldn't need the cache anymore, would need > to check. if its basic objects - the overhead of alloc/setup compared to re-use is large. for edje - re-use means freeing many structs (or unreffing) and deleting internal edje objects etc. so sure - there is a gain, but the gain is only in very original smart object setup alloc. you still pay the price of free/alloc of internals on re-use and this is probably 95% of the cost of a full delete/create. that's just what i'm saying :) > Ewl tries to only have as many Evas objects allocated as are currently > displayed (not obscured) which is a good win when there are a lot of > widgets in say a tree. this is definitely a good thing to do. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
