Phil
On Mar 7, 2004, at 7:28 PM, Miguel Howard wrote:
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
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