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- From: mortenk@dhhalden.no (MORTEN KNUDSEN)
- Subject: Re: Better File Management??
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- References: <1992Dec31.185639.29060@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <1992Dec31.210300.11314@actrix.gen.nz> <1993Jan1.213044.268@grebyn.com> <1993Jan5.202900.28196@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:15:58 GMT
-
- In article <1993Jan5.202900.28196@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- >Subject: Re: Better File Management??
- >Date: 5 Jan 93 20:29:00 GMT
- >In article <1993Jan1.213044.268@grebyn.com> mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli) writes:
- >>
- >>Does this mean that they have sped up the time it takes for the icons to
- >>be drawn when you open a window? This has always bugged me.
- >
- >The problem isn't in the icon draw time, but in the icon load time.
- >After having written some code using bitmaps and icons, I can safely
- >say that the speed to draw them is very very fast - faster than
- >Windows 3.1, for that matter. The problem with WPS is that it has to
- >load the icons from each file in a folder. This loading is what eats
- >time. I'm sure there's room for optimizing here, but it's more
- >closely related to the speed to fetch EA's and resources out of files
- >than to the speed of painting (which is, after all, related to the
- >video driver).
-
- Well, the OS/2 SVGA drivers suck anyway (one of the few things about OS/2
- that does).
-