python and stdwin: question and observation

Jaap Vermeulen (jaap@sequent.com)
Wed, 08 Jul 92 16:30:34 PDT

I was looking around for a listbox inside a window. I can't find any
example such a thing (maybe I'm just overlooking it?). Mainly I want
to position two listboxes (or scrollboxes or whatever you wanna call
'm) within a single window.

While I was looking around to find a listbox, I looked at the DirList
code and ran the TestDirList.py stdwin demo. Now this demo is
*painfully* slow and uses gobs and gobs of processor time. Is this
normal?

% time Python TestDirList.py

Time: 2:28.41 total 137.090 user 4.080 system 95.1% CPU
IO: 59+1 io 391+3 r/w syscalls 0+0 raw r/w
Mem: 0+14058 maj/min pf 137+344 incr/decr pff 0 max 187 zero 0 swaps
Sys: 147+1 vol/invol ctxsw 2306 system calls 0 signals

This means that in a little over two minutes I burned a little over two
minutes of CPU time (gulp!). And the only thing I did is open five
directories or so (I started somewhere in ~/lib/python/demos/stdwin and
went up to the parent directory five times until I was in my home
directory). And the code is not spinning, since it wouldn't burn
anything if I didn't touch it. Insights anyone (read: Guido :-).

Thanks,

-Jaap-

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