Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Some updates

[Wenyuan G. <guo...@gm...>]

Hi folks,

> For a developer who might be testing tuxmath many times a day, a 2s delay
> could become annoying. But I bet for a kid who might just launch it once per
> day, that's probably a reasonable amount of time to devote to "branding." So
> overall I would vote that additional optimization is not necessary. Anybody
> feel differently?

I guess that's why I was annoyed with it at the first place, having
sometimes to launch the program a dozen times in a short span :=). But
it might be true that for a regular user, the 2s may not be that
repulsive.


> Maybe we should try to test this on an old, low-powered machine to see
> if it takes longer than 2s on such hardware.  If so, it would be
> worthwhile to try to further optimize it.
>
> As for shortening the "splash" time to less than 2s, it might be nice
> to get it down to 1s or so, but I would consider it to be a low
> priority.

I thought about this too. I don't have an old machine lying around
right now. Anyone can chip in on how the program performs on their
machines if they are relatively outdated? I suspect the main factor is
the speed of harddisk, compound by the large number of files
necessitating repositioning of the read head and a seek delay penalty
for each file, compared with a large continuous file.  I think we can
decide on whether to optimize it any further based on that.


Wenyuan