[Bob Smith <
[email protected]>]
| <code>
| public void SetPage(){
| String helpURL = G.GetSection( cmb.getSelectedItem().toString()
| ); if (helpURL != null) {
| try {
| Editor.setPage( new java.net.URL( "...url..." ) );
| } catch (IOException ex) {
| System.err.println("Attempted to read a bad URL: " +
| helpURL);
| }
| } else {
| System.err.println("Couldn't find URL:" + helpURL );
| }
| }
| </code>
| Hi again
| tracked down the problem to this code snippet.
| the linux box hangs for a minute in this function/method.
|
| The reason is the URL constructor, what is time consuming there in htat
| constructor?
I have no idea. without knowing what Editor.setPage() does, I have no
idea what your problem might be. I don't *think* the URL constructor
should be the problem here. what if you declare a local URL variable,
construct he URL object and assign it to this variable and then make
the setPage() call using this as the argument, so that you can measure
the time this takes to see if it is really the *constructor* that
takes time. something like this:
import java.net.URL;
....
....
long t = System.currentTimeMillis();
System.err.println("before");
URL url = new URL( "...url..." );
System.err.println("after, took " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - t));
Editor.setPage(url);
...so you'll see if the URL constructor is the culprit.
as I suggested before, if the hashCode() method of URL gets called,
this will trigger address resolution of the host part of the URL,
which might, on a really badly configured¹ Linux box, take a while.
what does Editor.setPage() do? will this add URL to a Set or use it
as a key in a Map? (or even a value in a map which you later extract
the Map.Entry set for?).
