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List:       enlightenment-devel
Subject:    Re: [E-devel] E SVN: raster trunk/evas_generic_loaders
From:       Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <raster () rasterman ! com>
Date:       2011-04-30 6:58:30
Message-ID: 20110430155830.77da2235.raster () rasterman ! com
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On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 08:09:05 +0200 (CEST) Vincent Torri <vtorri@univ-evry.fr>
said:

> 
> 
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:26:23 +0200 Joerg Sonnenberger
> > <joerg@britannica.bec.de> said:
> >
> >> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:58:43AM +0200, Vincent Torri wrote:
> >>> I'm still wondering aboutefficiency : for example, for pdf rendering,
> >>> shouldn't the use of a pdf generic loader be slower than wht i can achieve
> >>> in eyesight ?
> >>
> >> Only if you fork once per page or something like that. Give it a minimal
> >> input processing like Ghostscript's X11 target and the overhead is going
> >> to mostly vanish. E.g. "open", "render $page $resolution" "close" should
> >> be good enough for most purposes.
> >
> > the generic loader does fork once.. actually it forks AND execs TWICE per
> > load (once for header, once for body).
> 
> if one has to parse the file for each display of a page, then it's 
> definitely not the way to use for a document viewer. It can indeed be good 
> for thumbnailing, like an icon on the desktop or in a file viewer.

thats exactly what i keep saying. it's NOT meant to replace epdf/eyesight etc.
etc. - it's a quick way to do a preview app (eg in efm), thumbnails and n image
viewer than can also manage to look at pdf's etc. as a added bonus, but it's
not optimal.

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