On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 11:07:19AM +0200, Alfredo Braunstein wrote:
> Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
>
> > Good question.
> >
> >> Because in the
> >> second case the change could actually mean *slower* startup times...
> >
> > I don't think the difference would be noticeable... the lib/images/math
>
> Didn't this start as a presumable startup time improvement?
No. It started as code decontamination. I did not even mention speed.
>
> > directory is only 6 megs in size. I don't know how the resource file is
>
> Note that lib/images (*including* lib/images/math) is just 7.9M.
Could depend on the filesystem and thje tools used to compute 'size'.
>
> > used within Qt but I guess that not everything is put in memory... not
> > sure though.
>
> Another thing that makes me wonder, the 1.5.x lib/images dir with .xpm
> images was only 2.9M. Did the xpm -> png change had some impact on load
> time?
I wonder why you try to invent problems.
In rev 19000 we have 1169691 for wc -c {*,*/*}.* in lib/images,
in current trunk it is 235212. That's a bit more than a fifth
of the original size.
Andre'
