On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:00:56AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > But Base64 blobs have the disctinct inconvenient that LyX will have to read > all embedded files itself. This will kill the file loading time if we abuse > such method. OK, we could organize the .lyx file so that all blobs are at > the end instead of when they are used (this would mean that the file > loading would have to be done in two parts) but LyX would have to read > these files nonetheless and it does not right now for most of them; and > when it does, it does it asynchronously (graphics), you can't beat that, > can you?
I'd expect no loss in performance. Most notably on Windows reading a big file is much faster than reading several smaller ones... Andre'
