On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 10:26:57AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > >>Andre Poenitz wrote: > >> > >>>On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 12:20:23PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > >>>>>This is a generated file built by > >>>>> > >>>>>Resources.qrc: > >>>>> echo "<!DOCTYPE RCC><RCC version='1.0'><qresource>" > $@ > >>>>> find $(top_srcdir)/lib/images -name '*.png' \ > >>>>> | sed -e 's:$(top_srcdir)/lib/\(.*\):<file > >>>>> | alias="\1">&</file>:' \ > >>>>> >> $@ > >>>>> echo "</qresource></RCC>" >> $@ > >>>>What is the advantage of doing all these? > >>>Compiled-in resources vs 600 seperately installed files? > >> > >>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. > Good - faster startup is always a good thing, the delay is noticeable now.
It removes ~0.4s out of a total ~7s here, so ~5%. Not too much actually, but not bad either. It's hard to get 'real numbers' as after the first start there's a lot chached by the system (total time then <2s here). Andre'
