> you are correct; pre6 is slower to load compared to pre5. Miguel > changed the popupMenu so that it loads when the applet is first > instantiated, instead of when the menu is first clicked. this was to > remove an awkward 2-3 second delay between right-click and menu > appearance.
It is true that the popupMenu is loaded initially, but that should be running as a background task that does not add any time ... at least that is the theory. > to me, it is a fair trade off - but here are my numbers, so... > > > pre6 to load 1d66.pdb: > 1.72 sec (n=5) > > pre5 to load 1d66.pdb: > 0.96 sec (n=5) Tim, can you rerun a couple of timing tests with pre6 ... with vs. without the popup menu, in order to quantify what kind of impact this is having? Separately, I have another theory. I changed the code in pre6 to explicitly force a garbage collection as soon as the model is loaded. This is because we are now consuming less memory, and I wanted to get confirmation. This is probably the source of *some* of the delay. Tim, if you are up to it, you can run another little test. JmolViewer.java lines 845 & 846 call System.gc() and System.finalize(). Comment out those lines and see what kinds of times you get. Thanks, Miguel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
