Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Further performance improvement with more caching mechanisms

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

Hi Brendan,

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Brendan Luchen <bm...@ri...> wrote:
>> I agree that this is probably the best thing to do now. Certainly it seems
>> likely that loading times will increase as you have more images. If that
>> becomes problematic, one obvious solution would be to defer loading of
>> images
>> that are not needed immediately (e.g., menu items only when you need them,
>> comets game images only when you need them, etc.).
>
>
> My 2 cents: lazy loading might actually create the illusion of slowness,
> since the loads would be during program use. IMO, if everything can be
> loaded quickly enough for us to "hide" it behind the Tux4Kids logo, that's
> best.

I think you are right! Actually in the worst case, we may create a
low-priority thread that loads things aren't needed immediately, while
allowing the main program to proceed as soon as it is ready.

Wenyuan