> Why would an external app be slower, greedier, whatever than an > in-memory approach?
MEMORY: The external application needs to be given the entire document, or else things like NextPage won't work. An in-memory approach could get by with having one page at a time generated. That is the difference between a couple of mega-bytes and a couple of hundred mega-bytes. If you could sort-of script the external viewer you might get the same effect and gain fault-isolation. That would be nice. CPU USAGE: Depending on interface, for the external approach you will probably have to render a lot of floating-point numbers to ascii and do the other way in the viewer. An in-memory approach would not have to do that. Try printing a million random floating-point numbers to a file and see how long time that takes. _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
