Re: gtk_signal_emit vs gtk_signal_emit_by_name

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Gary Benson <gary inauspicious org> writes:
> On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Gary Benson wrote:
>
> > Can anyone enlighten me as to why some widgets build a big table of their 
> > signals and then emit them with gtk_signal_emit whereas others just use 
> > gtk_signal_emit_by_name. Is it a performance vs convenience thing?
>
> Actually, I think I just answered my own question. The big table of 
> signals has to be created, and if you just created it then you may as well 
> emit the signals from there. If you are 'faking' a signal from another 
> object then you don't have access to your table and must reference the 
> signal by name.

It's just a performance issue; it avoids a hash lookup to emit the
signal by ID instead of name.

Havoc