Morphic slowness (was Re: Does *anyone* use MVC?)

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Fri Aug 2 23:02:20 UTC 2002


On Friday 02 August 2002 09:47 am, Valloud Andres wrote:

> Some time ago I traced Morphic code and it turned out to be that
> the interesting properties that cause slowdown due to dictionary
> lookup are 1 or 2.  To cache them in the extension you need to
> impose using selectors to get them every time, and then put an
> instance variable in the extension.  It sped up things
> considerably.

The ones I spotted were wonderlandTexture and clipSubmorphs. There may 
be others as well.

Which ones did you find, if you remember?

see Morph>>invalidRect:from: and Morph>>clipSubmorphs. 

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