Pascal Georges schrieb: Hi!
> Indeed this package is interesting : most of the games I > open now comes with players's photos ... Add the ones generated from one of the CB Megas (non-free, unfortunately so we can not put it there) ad you are at ~13.000 photos... > But there are few minor drawbacks to be aware of : - the > file takes some room (50+ MB) on hard drive, of course ;-) Sure. Thats why I stated for the package maintainers that such things should live in global data dirs like share/scid/ > - the startup time of Scid is slowed down a couple of > seconds due to > photos parsing I found this impact negligible compared to the ratings file e.g. > - 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 ! This would be a good thing, indeed! (Also considering my statement above ;) Maybe beyond the scope in this context, but I think that also a DB independent player profile, based upon data like the photo files, the rating file etc. could be interesting. Some sort of CB's playerbase. -- Kind regards, Alexander Wagner Universitaetsbibliothek Ilmenau Langewiesener Str. 37 98693 Ilmenau Tel.: 03677/69-4521 , Fax.: 03677/69-4617 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
