Re: Speedups for GTK2 bindings?

[Andreas Rottmann <a dot rottmann at gmx dot at>]

Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at> writes:

> Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
>>
>>> I'll probably try what speedups result of re-implementing the
>>> re-export-bindings and functions->methods-public helpers in C. 
>>
>> Great! A lot of that code is (as you know) slow slow slow slow slow, and
>> since I don't fire up the gtk side of things too often, I don't really
>> see it very much.
>>
> It seems that the speed gains from doing the generics stuff from C
> (I've made up a version that is basically the scheme code translated
> to the Guile C API) are minimal at best. I think that the add-method
> invocation is the slow call. I've yet to profile the code to see what
> causes it to run so slow.
>
I've now checked in most of my non-GError related changes to
guile-gobject. This includes creating the generic functions immediatly
(as suggested by Andy Wingo), not in a seperate pass, which is cleaner
IMO and also reduces the binding load time by about 10% on my machine
(10 seconds -> 9 seconds -- YMMV, I'd like to get this number
verified...)

Regards, Andy
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