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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: svgz (Re: KAnagram patch using qsvgrenderer for all graphics)
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-05-21 18:33:33
Message-ID: 200705211233.33976.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Saturday 19 May 2007, Holger Freyther wrote:
> Am 19.05.2007 um 13:59 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> > Actually i don't see the point of svgz, it provides less disk space
> > usage but
> > also means more CPU time as it has to be decompressed (only first
> > usage time
> > i'd say but anyway). Given disk space is relatibely cheap and fast
> > starting
> > apps are nice i'd go with svg only.
>
> Well it is only one part of the equation. Assume your svg is bigger
> than one block on the disk. And the blocks are more than one seek a
> way. Now text can be compressed pretty good and your svg fits in one
> block. In this case loading+uncompressing is likely faster than
> collecting the uncompressed file.

given that some of the kdeedu apps have multiple MB of svg data, it really 
does make a difference.

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