Bug#252148: zenity is S L O W

[Ross Burton]

On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 17:40, giacomo boffi wrote:
> please look at the attached little benchmark, you can see that
> instantiating a zenity dialog takes MORE than 10 times the cpu needed
> to load xemacs, execute its startup files, to instantiate a fully
> decorated (menus, toolbars, pixmaps) frame and to close it, and what's
> more important, it takes more than FIVE seconds of wall clock

For me that code results in the Zenity dialog appearing instantly.  Note
that the duration that time will return includes the amount of time you
take to actually press the dialog, so does not represent a sensible
benchmark.

$ echo $LISTA
FALSE ctwm FALSE gwm FALSE ion2 FALSE metacity FALSE pwm2 FALSE vtwm
TRUE twm

$ time zenity --height=330 --list --radiolist --column Run --column
window\ manager $LISTA
twm

real    0m0.596s
user    0m0.193s
sys     0m0.029s

Of course, leaving the dialog a few seconds before hitting return gives:

$ time zenity --height=330 --list --radiolist --column Run --column
window\ manager $LISTA
twm

real    0m6.706s
user    0m0.179s
sys     0m0.034s

It's probably a good idea to run strace zenity... 2>log and attach the
log, so we can see if there is something weird going on with your
system.

Ross
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