Re: Graphics and memory opinions

[Daniel J Sebald]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> 2008/12/13 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:
>
>
> > But I thought we were doing this in a
> > reasonbly efficient way now.  Or maybe we only discussed fixing it and
> > no one did the work.  I can't remember.
>
>
> Yeah, I think we discussed it, and I never did the work. But I was
> complaining about speed of loading, not memory usage.

Well, that too.  Of course loading formatted I/O will be only so fast, but my 
feeling is that significant decrease in speed can be achieved.  Going to swap 
memory, though, makes things really slow.

Dan