From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-07-23T07:07:38-05:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:04179] Re: Partly converted English Ruby/Tk widget demo working.

Conrad Schneiker <schneik@austin.ibm.com> writes:

> One curious thing that I noticed is that the individual widget demos run
> by the Ruby/Tk widget program start up noticeably slower on the AIX
> machine than on the NT machine, even though the AIX machine is much
> faster. Moreover, Ruby/Tk doesn't seem to be using more than a small
> fraction of the available CPU time of the AIX machine. Any idea of what
> it might be doing?

Is it possible you have a problem with that machine's resolve.conf,
our with the DISPLAY environment variable, that was causing GTK to do
a DNS call to find the display before starting?


Dave