Re: [Flightgear-devel] statistics: usage of texture memory (shocking!)

[Erik H. <er...@eh...>]

Melchior FRANZ wrote:

> Note that several textures are loaded multiple times! This is especially
> painful for textures that are >1MB and don't really contain anything
> meaningful, such as the Nimitz' red.rgb halo, which is loaded 28 times
> into memory!

A few weeks back I already had a hunch something like this was happening 
(back when I used the sun halo texture for the runway lights). The best 
way to handle this is to create a caching mechanism where the absolute 
path of the texture is the key and the texture-id is cached for future use.

Erik


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