2008/8/7 Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Contents is "all I can get from FIDE", approx 5300
> individual photos. Not all are high quality (FIDE seems to
> use some webcams sometimes) but by far the most of them are
> pretty good in fact. The file needs approximately 53MB on
> your disk. (Therefore, it is probably better suited in
> .../share/scid than in $HOME/.scid for each user ;)
>
Hi,
Indeed this package is interesting : most of the games I open now comes with
players's photos ... But there are few minor drawbacks to be aware of :
- the file takes some room (50+ MB) on hard drive, of course ;-)
- the startup time of Scid is slowed down a couple of seconds due to photos
parsing
- photos are put in memory at startup and will eat 51.6 MB of RAM. So the
use of such file is certainly harmless with 2 GB of RAM but not on smaller
configurations (512 MB). Maybe it is time to change the code for an
on-demand photo loading !
Pascal
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