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Subject: Re: program loading
From: <uwe () uwix ! alt ! na>
Date: 1999-02-25 14:31:31
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On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, rupert THURNER wrote:
> you seem to use a very fast computer :)
Oh well, it's a DEC Alpha 500. :-)
Uwe
>
> uwe@uwix.alt.na wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Take netscape - it's huge, and I think it's the fact that most people use
> > > > the statically-linked version that makes it load slowly - loads pretty fast
> > > > when Motif libs are already in core.
> > >
> > > On Linux perhaps, but I think the poor coding and just general bloat of
> > > Communicator 4 contribute to its loading slowly. IIRC the fbsd ld.so
> > > mmaps whole libraries and the like, so you would still have the glacially
> > > slow loading time, if you're linking in huge libraries..
> > >
> > > > Actually maybe it's the resolving symbols in all the libraries that's taking
> > > > the time, but whatever...
> > > >
> > > > Point is, I don't like the splash screen on aesthetic grounds and on
> > > > technical grounds - I think it'll appear closer to the app being mapped than
> > > > the app starting to load.
> > >
> > > A splash screen shouldn't be that huge.. 640x480x8 at the _most_
> > > (hopefully much smaller) so the bloat should be minimal. It would be a
> > > good indication that a program has been loaded...
> > >
> > > I think that klyx is the only K app I've seen with a splash screen.
> >
> > Right. And I find it very annoying (I'm using KLyX quite a lot!). Besides,
> > the splash screen is always under the KLyX window because KLyX' window
> > pops up directly after the splash screen shows up. A good indicator that
> > a splash screen doesn't serve the purpose. ;-)
> >
> > Uwe
> >
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