From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A91C2BB83 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:19:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7EIJ36W000769 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:19:04 +0200 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA18241 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:19:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from furbychan.cocan.org (furbychan.cocan.org [80.68.91.176]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7EIJ0nc019188 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:19:03 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1GCh1I-0006CP-00; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:18:36 +0100 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:18:36 +0100 To: Matt Gushee Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Weak hashtables & aggressive caching Message-ID: <20060814181836.GA23782@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <44E08F95.2070105@gushee.net> <20060814154749.GA25793@furbychan.cocan.org> <44E0A4B7.8070009@gushee.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44E0A4B7.8070009@gushee.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 44E0BE97.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 44E0BE94.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; hashtables:01 caching:01 gdk:01 gdk:01 notepad:01 2006:98 2.0:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 api:01 weak:04 unlikely:04 converted:04 images:94 images:94 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:28:39AM -0600, Matt Gushee wrote: > Wait a minute, though. According to the Gdk reference manual, > > > Pixbufs are client-side images. Ah right, pixbufs, pixmaps ... In that case why bother preloading them at all? eog is flagrant with regards to pixmaps because the developers believe it allows them to display images quickly (the images are already on the X server, converted from JPEGs into raw pixels). In this age of fast CPUs and slow RAM this is unlikely to be the case. Rich. -- Richard Jones, CTO Merjis Ltd. Merjis - web marketing and technology - http://merjis.com Team Notepad - intranets and extranets for business - http://team-notepad.com