On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:54:35 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys <[email protected]> wrote:
> Vincent Snijders wrote: > > > > It is to show the splash screen as soon as possible, not to wait > > until yet another executable is loaded. > > > Well then we are talking about milliseconds really. A splash screen > is normally show just after the Application.Initialize call. Surely a > few milliseconds shouldn't make a difference - in return for getting > the startlazarus a bit "lighter" in memory usage department. > > I did a quick test and by removing splash screen support from > startlazarus, I managed to shaved off 3-4MB of memory usage. It went > down from 14MB to 10MB memory. I'd say that is worth the few > milliseconds extra it takes for the Lazarus executable to show its > own splash screen. Please test on first run, when the OS has to load the lazarus exe from disk. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
