Re: [Pyobjc-dev] NSApplicationMain idiom: wish to standardize

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Friday, Mar 21, 2003, at 17:52 Europe/Amsterdam, bb...@ma... wrote:

> On Friday, Mar 21, 2003, at 11:33 US/Eastern, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>> Speaking of NSApplicationMain... Does anyone care to offer on opinion 
>> on the enormous amount of time between the call to NSApplicationMain 
>> and the call to awakeFromNib in a simple application? That period of 
>> time takes about 4 seconds of the 5 seconds my application needs to 
>> start up (using a savagely butchered version of PyObjC, 'import 
>> AppKit' would use another 2 seconds if I hadn't build a mini module 
>> that exports all definitions I need from AppKit and Foundation).
>
> How long does it normally take to launch an app of similar complexity 
> on your machine?

Project Builder starts in about 5 seconds (Powerbook G5 667 Mhz, 512 
MB).

>
> The period of time between NSApplicationMain() and the first 
> awakeFromNib() is comprised of most of the "hard stuff" of launching 
> an app;  setting up the notification stuff, the mach ports, and all 
> the other innards that integrate the App into OS X....
>
> Unless we have a bug somewhere, that period of time shouldn't really 
> be any longer than a 'normal' app as there really isn't anything from 
> PyObjC that is involved (unless your app delegate implements 
> willFinishLaunching())?

I don't implement an app delegate at all.

Ronald