On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 11:04:18AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > >Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > > >>>And this is an advantage because? > >>Presumably faster loading. I haven't tested yet but I can imagine that > >>reading one big file on disk is faster than reading 600 small files > >>(this is for sure on Windows). Note that most of the icons are loaded on > >>startup now that we have the math panels in the toolbars. > > > >Just trying to upset Andre'. Icons are really read on startup or just the > >first time the panel is created (if it is an auto panel)? > > 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 > directory is only 6 megs in size. I don't know how the resource file is > used within Qt but I guess that not everything is put in memory... not > sure though.
One can have external resources, but the patch uses internal resources, and it results in a increase of the binary of 261 k. Andre'
