[UI] Re: Transcript>>show: slowness.

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Sep 9, 2007, at 21:31 , Igor Stasenko wrote:

> On 09/09/2007, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>> On Sep 9, 2007, at 15:11 , Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>
>>> I want to ask, if someone knows, why transcript (or maybe  
>>> underlaying
>>> morphs) designed in such manner, that it forcibly updates itself on
>>> screen at each #show: message sent.
>>
>> So that you can see log entries even if you are in a longer
>> computation that blocks the UI.
>>
> Just read your sentence more carefully! :)
> "computation _blocks UI_". Blocks means: no input , no output!
> Since transcript window is the part of UI, so why you think it should
> make an exception?

Because it's useful, maybe? Who cares about Transcript performance if  
it is "pure" but useless?

- Bert -