Description Brian Nettleton 2005-10-20 14:53:07 EDT

The performance of Table.removeAll() under Solaris Motif is very poor.  The 
current algorithm has an exponential time complexity and a simple change 
converts this to a linear time complexity.  Function Table.removeAll removes 
all items in the list starting with the first item.  Removing an item involves 
shifting all the following items left one position and updating each following 
item's index.  A simple change is to instead remove the items in the list 
starting with the last and moving towards the first element.

This change is easily implemented by changing the while loop in Table.removeAll 
from:

	while (itemsCount > 0) {
		items [0].dispose (true);
	}


to:

	while (itemsCount > 0) {
		items [itemsCount - 1].dispose (true);
	}