morphic slowdown

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Sat May 25 18:48:17 UTC 2002


Avi Bryant <avi at beta4.com> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> On Sat, 25 May 2002, Bob Arning wrote:
> 
> > There may be several factors that add up to the difference you see.
> > One of them is that in 2.8, selecting a class did NOT select a method
> > category and thus showed an empty message list. In 2.9, the '-all-'
> > category gets selected by default and this causes the message list to
> > be populated. Bigger classes take longer to do this.
Maybe the list is doing too much work in that building process? After
all you only _need_ to create display related objects for the number
that will fit in the visible list view area.

tim

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