Re: slow xforms

["Jeff Creem" <jcreem@atetola.mv.com>]

Bernhard Rumpler <rumpler@eunet.at> wrote in message
news:37F26492.12559B39@eunet.at...
> Hi!
>
> We have severe problems when using aforms (Forms Library Ada Bindings,
> V 0.86.0) Our distributed system depends on this library, all GUIs are
> implemented with aforms so we can't avoid using it.
> The problem is that the performance becomes extremly bad when we work
> with tasks or protected types. When we try to create the distributed
> partitions of our program (with gnatdist) the same problem occurs. Every
> pixmap-load lasts for seconds, the whole program needs about 3 minutes
> to start (normally it takes only a few seconds).
>
Of couse if you work with tasks and xforms you need to be careful since
X and xforms are not thread safe...I am not sure what is causing the
slowness
but I would imagine that the makers of xforms (who you have paid a license
fee to since this is not free SW unless not used for commecial purposes)
 might be able to help you.

It can be a little hard to get help in cases like this but if you frame your
question in terms
of problems working with threads they may be able to help.

Jeff Creem