On 2003/12/18 17:41, chris wrote: >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). >
Yes, this makes sense, sortof. The sortof is that you would expect it to slow down if Emailer is not the frontmost app, but this is a noticeable difference by just moving the cursor around the screen even when Emailer remains the frontmost app at all times. Moreso, maybe I'm crazy, but it seems to me that the difference becomes most noticeable only when the cursor is actually over the little line of text in that box and not anywhere else over the deletion box. Anyway, glad to have found this, as the deletion time on quitting Emailer was rather a pain how slow it was. Makes a big difference. Alicia Alicia Gordon Gordon Word Artists French and Spanish Translation ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
