[bt-devel] Another question: Caching

Martin Gruner bt-devel@crosswire.org
Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:32:25 +0100


Hi Joachim,

> Another question for you.
>
> I was thinking about caching the texts rendered by the display object
> (CHTMLChapterDisplay and CHTMLEntryDisplay).
> Does somebody know if it gives reasonable speed improvements? Or  does this
> depend on the speed of the PC (e.g. speed with caching on a 486 compared to
> an K7)?

I use a K6 200, and caching doesn't improve display speed. I guess that is 
not where we must optimize. Let us save the memory in this place.

BTW, i guess BT won't work on a 486 with the current memory footprint ;)

Martin