Re: ELisp-based uncompface

[Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>]

On Thu, Feb 12 2004, Jesper Harder wrote:

> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
>
>> It's fast enough for me too, however I heard it takes seconds
>> per image in the slow machine.
>
> It takes around 0.3 s (versus 0.03 s for the external decoder) on my
> 233 MHz pentium box, which I think is a rather low-end machine by
> today's standards.
>
> It's not used in a loop, so don't think many will notice any
> difference even on a slow machine.

Hm, the delay is notable on my P200 and P266 I'm using at home.  (I
didn't benchmark it, though.)

Is there a (portable) way in lisp to find out if the machine is slow?
Maybe it's enough to mention `uncompface-use-external' in (info
"(gnus)Slow Machine").

If we just want to provide support for installations missing the
external "uncompface" (this was the initial motivation, if I
understood correctly), we could use something like this:

(defcustom uncompface-use-external (and (executable-find "uncompface")
					(executable-find "icontopbm")
					t)
[...])

Bye, Reiner.
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