Progress Bar

[Richard Gaskin]

Pete wrote:

 > It takes about 2.5 times longer to process my test data with a
 > progress bar than without one.
...
 > I calculate the update interval by dividing the number of records to
 > be processed by 100 with a minimum of 10 to deal with small data
 > sets.  I guess maybe I can play around with the divisor of 100 to
 > see what yields the best blend of performance while still showing
 > progress.

Yes, the longer interval between updates will help a lot.

This is true for all OSes, but even more so on the Mac with the rich 
rendering required for the Aqua progress indicator.

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