GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 318256
tiny-fu takes a looong time to start
Last modified: 2007-04-16 16:40:53 UTC
Version details: 1.0.1 Distribution/Version: Solaris 8 I just download tiny-fu 1.0.1 and the plugin takes a very long time to initialize itself compared to script-fu. Not sure if its related to script checking or internatinalization. Anyway, the system is a Solaris/Sparc (SunBlade 100/256Mb) and the OS release is a bit outdated (no locale in libc) but other plugins go through this problem faster too.
UTF-8 support added some overhead to the parsing of scripts. Also some Scheme functions (ie. caar) are implemented via a library of Scheme code instead of in C. This adds flexibility and allows for some things to be changed/fixed without the need to recompile the plug-in. The current emphasis is on making sure the plug-in is working properly and getting a release for with the current version of GIMP. Reducing start up time will be something for post 1.2 versions. Changing the plug-in along the lines suggested in bug 311726 would also reduce the start up time.
*** Bug 345736 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 374854 ***