Re: [rox-devel] ROX-Lib

[Thomas L. <ta...@gm...>]

On 3/19/07, Stephen Watson <st...@ke...> wrote:
[ caching ]
> I'll admit it made more sense before I found out that xml_new_from_buffer
> was too buggy to be useful.  Orignally Templates held the XML file as a
> string and used xml_new_from_buffer to generate the widgets.

I'm surprised it made any difference, since Linux will be caching the
file anyway. I tested it with this code, using the glade file from
0publish-gui:

import pygtk; pygtk.require('2.0')
import gtk.glade

xml = file('0publish-gui.glade').read()
xml_len = len(xml)

def go():
	gtk.glade.XML('0publish-gui.glade', 'add_archive')
	#gtk.glade.xml_new_from_buffer(xml, xml_len, 'add_archive')

Then:

$ /usr/lib/python2.4/timeit.py -s 'from speed import go' 'go()'

gives these results, depending on which line is uncommented:

10 loops, best of 3: 50.8 msec per loop (xml_new_from_buffer)
10 loops, best of 3: 50.9 msec per loop (reading from the file)


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