Norman Vine writes:
> David Megginson writes:
> >
> >Curtis L. Olson writes:
> >
> > > Getting metakit to build properly from within SimGear has been a PITA
> > > from day one.  Right now I'm voting for de-bundling it. 
> >
> >I say yank it completely and either (a) store all of the data in
> >memory, or (b) split it into directories like the scenery data.  The
> >airport and navaid data that we need are easily small enough to slirp
> >up into in-memory STL containers -- we have only a little over 16,000
> >airports, for example.
> 
> Fine but ...
> Just remember that in general we want to DECREASE the number of 
> files that need to be opened per tile as fopen() is a 'major' contributor 
> to the ' SIM stuttering' when loading a tile on some systems !

Oooo, oooo, oh wait never mind, that might just start a pointless OS
flame war. :-)

Curt.
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