[cells-gtk-devel] Re: Cells-gtk now UFFI-ized, running under AllegroCL and Lispworks on win32, next stop OS/X.

[Kenny Tilton]

Andras Simon wrote:

>
>>> I'll send you a tarball later today. It'll have everything but the 
>>> tree demo working. But, because of that, an announcement may be just 
>>> a bit too early.
>>
>>
>> Ah, yes. That tree demo was a monster. I actually did that in two 
>> steps, because it itself has two sub-demos: "listbox" and "treebox". 
>> So I commented out one until I got the other working. Each took days. 
>> :(  Hope what I did carries over to CMU.
>
>
> It definitely did! Both parts of the tree demo work out of the box; 
> it's just that they're so bloody slow that I gave up before the window 
> came up. But now I put 1 in the :init-value slot of the h-scale, and 
> that helped.

Nice guess! How slow was "slow"? I have seen like a 3-4 second pause, no 
more. Never investigated.

If your "slow" is much out of line with the Clisp original (using CLisp 
FFI -- did you ever try building that to see if it would fly?) or if it 
s out of line with ACL and Lispworks on win32, I will suspect the CMUCL 
FFI interacting with UFFI, a known problem.

As for Cells being the problem, one never knows, but the original pure 
CLisp version uses Cells, and Cells are pretty solid as a rule.

I am going to spend some time merging any changes I made ot get a clean 
compile under LW on Mac OS/X and then update CVS with everything. Then 
off to cll to emtion the CMUCL coverage.

kenny

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