On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Davis, Sean (NIH/NHGRI) wrote: > Thanks for the reply. To answer your questions, they will be > presenting the same information to all users, but to pre-build will > result in about 200,000 files (all on the order of 10-20KB, png [they > include text]). Storage isn't really an issue, I don't think, but > just felt more elegant to compute on the fly.
It depends what you want to optimize for. What is the overhead for generating 200k images on the fly? How much disc space will it take to generate them all -- perhaps as an offline batch routine -- and serve up the pre-generated file on demand? If your server is already busy, generating everything on the fly might be a lot of overhead; if you have the disc space for it, generating and storing all these files might not be such a bad idea. Certainly, making them in advance should get you around the problem of the images sometimes not showing up -- or so I would hope... -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
