"alexrousseau_jta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I forgot to ask: When you say "marginally slower", is it > still fast enough to load a 2-bit-depth 160x160 bitmap > in 250ms or less? I'm glad to be of service! As for the 'slowness', my (rough) understanding is that it has to do with the write protection affecting the storage area; database operations need to account for this, whereas operations on the dynamic heap do not. (Perhaps there is other upkeep associated with databases -- someone else could better answer that.) Anyway, this upkeep occurs at the record level, and once it is accomplished, read and write operations take place (I believe) at the same speed they would on the dynamic heap. Therefore, an application processing many small records likely would demonstrate a performance loss from using databases, but one such as yours with (relatively) few records will not. Would someone care to confirm my thinking here? As for loading your bitmaps in a quarter-second -- well, I haven't actually tried it, but I'd be surprised if it were any slower than that. Best regards, Jeremy Neal Kelly Software Engineer Peapod -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
