On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 08:53:53PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > On 03/18/2015 07:43 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 09:42:58PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>Le 18/03/15 19:14, Enrico Forestieri a écrit : > >>>LyX uses gunzip for uncompressing a gzipped file. Most probably, that > >>>could be also directly done in memory by using zlib, but I don't know > >>>if that's a bigger problem in the native Windows world ;) > >>We have support/gzstream.h for that, and I would be surprised if Qt > >>could not do it too. > >You are very correct. I tried replacing "gunzip -c" with "cat" in > >filetools.cpp and the result is simply that lyx now starts up > >a bit faster than before... > > Is it worth our replacing the gunzip call, then? Since we'll now be > relying upon it more?
I think it would be even better avoiding this path for the icons, i.e., do not even try to uncompress them. -- Enrico
