You could mmap a bmp Cheers
> On 20 Aug 2014, at 01:07, Ricky Ng <[email protected]> wrote: > > I thought you were complaining about the memory usage of #get_image_data(). > > First, I am going to say that you are going to have to hit the disk/slow > memory anyways to load the image and that this very well might fall under > pre-optimization. > > As for the actual image, because JPEGs are compressed, I believe you have to > read the whole thing in. If you were using something like a BMP, you could > just index into the image. That being said, you still need to get that BMP > loaded from disk into memory which is going to be orders of magnitude > slower/costly. > > That hit to disk is why sprite sheets are often used so that a continuous > block of memory gets retrieved efficiently. > > **whiskey warning** > > >> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Raymond Liu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Swiftcoder you're absolutely right. Somehow in my stupid brain I counted >> 1000 bytes as a megabyte. >> >> Filipe, are you saying that either way I'm going to have the whole bitmap in >> my memory at some point, and there is nothing I can do about it??? >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "pyglet-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > Incoherently, > Ricky Ng > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pyglet-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pyglet-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
