On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 19:08 +0100, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: > Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > How about merging these into the *.txt files? > > I think it would only make things (extracting, merging and > manually editing the files) more complicated and error-prone. > Disk reads and space is cheap, especially now with the new > threaded stamp-loading code.
The funny thing about disk reads is that bulk reads are cheap, while tiny reads are costly. The disk might go at 100 MB/s, but every seek will cost you 5 ms. BTW, how does Tux Paint from CVS work for you? Font scanning is now done in a separate process. For filling in the tool option buttons and for the selected item, both fonts and stamps are loaded on demand by the main thread. > If you really want to reduce disk reads, creating some sort of > internal stamp description cache file, and only checking last > modification times when loading stamps may be a better solution > (but still unnecessary, IMHO). I've thought of doing that. It has another huge gain: stamp scaling need not be done if thumbnails are cached. _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list Tuxpaint-dev@tux4kids.net http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
