Hello Oliver, on 29-Apr-99, you wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> As I recall this was originally a request for making browsing back and forth
>quicker on slow computers. Decoding is only a part of the problem - dithering and
>scaling takes time too. I would say that a raw image cache where the decoded,
>dithered, scaled and otherwise degraded raw pictures are kept with no or low (fast)
>compression makes sense. This migth also speed things up for powerusers with huge and
>fast disks...
>
> V does cache raw (decoded) bitmaps in memory since 2.88. (this is what
> the "Cache Images?" setting is for)
If you have a slow computer, you are not likely to have much ram either. 8MB is wasted
rather quickly - maybe the caching could be extended to disk (as an option). Of course
you could use a virtualmem system - but I have never been able to make such thing work
reliably.
Regards/
/Ole Kaas
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