I think the solution may be as simple as going back to GIF files. Having made the conversion to SVG, it is much easier to create internationalized versions of TA, but I am not taking any special advantage of SVG during runtime...
-walter On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Bernie Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Walter Bender wrote: >> I have been trying to speed up Turtle Art, which initializes much >> slower (4x) since I converted from GIF to SVG. I've tried a lot of >> tweaking, such as eliminating the linear gradients, in an attempt to >> find out where the rendering bottleneck is (the file sizes are not >> sizes are about the same) to no avail. Anyone have any experience with >> such things? > > Some time ago, me and tomeu did some timing on loading, parsing and > rendering the activity icons with librsvg within Sugar. > > I have not kept the raw output, but I remember that rendering was > reasonably fast for most icons (10ms or so), and slowish for a couple > of problem icons with too many polygons. One of these was indeed > TurtleArt! > > Our super-sophisticated secret profiler was something > like this: > > from time import time > > start_time = time() > > # ... do something bad here... > > end_time = time() > elapsed_time = end_time - start_time > print elapsed_time > > -- > // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ > \X/ Sugar Labs - http://www.sugarlabs.org/ > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
