Re: Iconized application takes looooong to wake up

Melissa Schrumpf wrote:
Anecdotally, I find application restore times to be a more common affliction of Windows.

I suspect an unfortunate interaction between the scheduler and the way
Tk manages resources (which is non-standard by comparison with most Win
applications). But I don't understand the details well enough to be able
to point to anything useful.

Donal.
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