Re: Tooltips GC overhead

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:33:33 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > I'm a heavy user of frames, and I've never been satisfied by the time
> > needed to create a new frame, so I'd be happy to see some improvement in
> > this area.
> 
> I too use frames heavily.  And I remember that frame creation
> could be slow on UNIX - back in the Dark Ages, at least.  But
> AFAICT it is nearly instantaneous on MS Windows.  Maybe
> something can be done at a lower level to speed things up on
> other platforms?

The code in question runs on all platforms for GUI frames, so it is as
slow on Unix as it is fast on Windows.