> Hi Thomas,
> I didnt follow all your discussion. Could it be that your macro is too
> long? At some point (I guess at about 500 lines) the cint buffer which
> keeps the byte code gets full then cint starts interpreting instead of
> running the "compiled" code and this is of course very slow
>
thanks for your sugestion. The investigations showed, that the problem
lies somewhere between root and X11 (see priror mails). In the batch mode
(root -b) I don't have any performance degradations.
Back to your suggestion: My macro consists of 350 lines, which should be
small enough.
Thanks
Thomas