Re: Insight 5.0 and GDB 5.0

[Bruce Stephens <bruce dot stephens at messagingdirect dot com>]

"Eray Ozkural (exa)" <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr> writes:

> Fernando Nasser wrote:
> > If you have the Cygwin environment (see source.redhat.com) I am sure they work.
> > At least for debugging programs compiled with gcc.
> > 
> > I believe gdb also runs on pure Windows machines, but I never used it.
> 
> They work MUCH BETTER on windows machines, something I don't quite
> understand. This seems to be related to performance flaws of tcl/tk.
> On the same machine source navigator works just like a native app
> on windows, but on linux the UI is so slow that you'd think it was
> written in Java. The problem is not with the X since I've very fast
> X11 apps (hardware accel ok)
> 
> Any ideas?

You might try explicitly undefining TK_USE_INPUT_METHODS in
src/tk/generic/tk.h.  In at least some linux X servers, this is quite
expensive.  (There was discussion of this a year or two ago on
comp.lang.tcl.)

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