Re: JPEG support for backgrounds - XPM.GZ

Guylhem Aznar (ciguylhem@barberouge.linux.lmm.com)
Sat, 22 Aug 1998 17:12:03 +0200 

On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 04:32:37PM -0400, Rob Foehl wrote:
> Reading a 2-12 meg XPM off the disk isnt the problem; Keeping it on the
> screen is. Keeping a file that large displayed takes a hellacious amount
> of system resources, not to mention user's time and patience.

A cache would eat too much memory !
It must be an option, i.e. what Sasha already did !
 
> -Rob

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