On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 12:06 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > I agree that TGA is not, in general, a great choice for an image format > (unless it is faster to load a large background image -- a 1024x768 RGB > PNG file may take more time to decompress than a TGA image would take > to load -- although perhaps an uncompressed PNG file would be > comparable in speed to load). However, I have not been able to load any > PNG images that I have tried to use. Something about the chunk type not > being supported.
Strange. It's working for me. You may want to post that file to the list. > If the buffering is not done in the file I/O layer, then the font > loading, theme file loading, image file loading, etc. will all need to > do their own buffering, which IMHO is more error prone and makes those > modules use more code to handle low level I/O stuff, which detracts > from their specific purpose. > > Also, this is no small increase in speed, but from 10x to 100x increase > in performance for some cases where small sequential reads are > performed. OK, then you may have a case. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
