at 1.28a EDT on 2004 March 08 Monday Miguel Howard said: > > 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. > my mistake - sorry.
> > 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? > Miguel, I will do this on monday. > 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. > I'll do this on monday, too. regards, :tim -- timothy driscoll molvisions - molecular graphics & visualization <http://www.molvisions.com/> usa:north carolina:wake forest ------------------------------------------------------- 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_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
