wxC & wxD

[Marco Leise]

Am 29.11.2011, 09:26 Uhr, schrieb Gour <gour at atmarama.net>:

> On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:16:09 +0100
> "Marco Leise" <Marco.Leise at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Take a look at Code::Blocks for an example. I think it is one of the
>> most sophisticated applications written with wxWidgets. I used to
>> have trouble with the XML GUI definitions though. Somehow they took
>> ages for me to load and generate the UI on Linux, but not on Windows.
>
> That's strange and it is the first time I heard something like that.
>
> Two days ago I also asked on wxWidgets list if using XRC is kind of
> idiomatic within wxWidgets community and Vadim Zeitlin (one of the core
> devs) replied:
>
> "Personally I've never really understood the appeal of compiling into  
> code
> and whenever I use XRC I load it during run-time. Perhaps you can gain  
> some
> minor performance advantage from compiling it into code (although I don't
> know if anybody has ever really measured this) but using XRC is much more
> flexible as you can tweak it without recompiling/rebuilding and often  
> even
> without restarting the program so I'd definitely recommend using it as  
> is,
> at least in the beginning."
>
>> So I am biased slightly against wx with XML or XRC or what they are
>> called.
>
> I'd say your experience is probably not the accurate representation. Was
> your problem with slow loading when using C++ or wxD?
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Gour

Precisely this: http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,13660.0.html
And debugging this lead me to the line where the XRC is parsed. It may  
after all have been an issue with my system / the xml library / gtk /  
compiz / etc... The experience just left a bad taste for me.