On 12/14/2011 02:49 PM, Werner Almesberger wrote:
There may still be the issue of long conversion times, if you
have a lot of images. This could be addressed by
- introducing a format for pre-converted images, and doing the
conversion on the host,
- building upon that, caching of converted images, (this adds
the cost of writing the converted image, though, so it may
not yield a net improvement)
- lazy evaluation, with the patch starting with only a limited
number of pre-converted images, and converting the rest in
the background as the patch runs.
This needs a bit of experimenting.
Hmm let's not mess up the code with complex (both in programming and
perhaps usage) features like this. I simply do not think the patch mode
is appropriate for slide-shows.
What about having a completely different feature for people who want to
do slide-shows? Maybe even completely separate from FN?
FYI MuPDF is working - albeit quite slowly - on the M1. There's even
some Flickernoise integration, but it's disabled by default at compile
time because the fonts bloat the binary.
Anyway, I made some good connections, but totally was out of my
element when asked "how does what you are saying apply to people in
the room who manage 1000's of employees..."
Isn't it obvious ? They should use Milkymist as a token of
inspiration, a great pefect blend of a bold statement of
out-of-the-box thinking with time-proven concept and technology.
Their employees should learn from this, and find courage for
groundbreaking work of their own. A bit like the monolith in
2001, and you don't even have to fly to Jupiter to get it
mass-produced :-)
Congratulations on overcoming all those obstacles, and I hope
your illustrious audience got the message that Milkymist is
indeed "The Next Big Thing" :-)
Hahaha, well said :-)
S.
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