>That being said, I too am noticing that having the cursor over the line >of text in that little delete window appears to speed up the deletion >considerably over having the cursor anywhere else. What's the logic >behind that, I wonder?
I'm taking a wild guess that it has to do with OS X's desire to "sleep" classic. I think OS X may give highest priority to any application that the mouse is over, figuring that the mouse will be over the front most application. So when the mouse leaves an Emailer window, OS X takes processor time away from Emailer. You can see the same slow down in OS versions prior to X, you just have to physically bring another application to the front, the watch the now slightly greyed window of Emailer in the background slow to a crawl. Although prior to OS X the slowdown was as bad, but it was still significant (probably again due to OS X's task sharing. In previous OS versions, it was up to the application to release the processor, but in OS X, the OS takes care of who gets what slice of processor time, so the slowdown would be greater as the OS takes away more processor time then the application would have normally given up on its own). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
