* Martin Spott -- Thursday 26 May 2005 13:07: > In my eyes _dropping_ ASCII XML files from the distribution should considered > to be a no-go,
Seconded. And then: it's *not* XML parsing that slows the startup process down so much! It's parsing two simple gzipped ASCII lists that are directly taken from X-Plane. Blowing them up to XML and then compiling them to a binary XML is pure nonsense. I'd rather go for the "cache a binary representation in $FG_HOME that is re-generated whenever necessary" method. Fears that this means less openness are completely unfounded and unreasonable. That's nothing else than having a binary representation in memory. The open format is still the only source of it, and every changed bit therein will take effect at the next start. But then again, the 35 seconds that I have to wait now don't kill me. :-} m. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
