On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 13:23:55 +0000, Boanne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Hammer,
> }- }- ... even turning images off didn't speed it up much for
> }- }- me ...
> Yes - for the longest time I couldn't understand why I kept
> seeing "verifying images" on Arachne's status bar when I had
> images turned off. Then I shelled out and looked in the cache.
> Sure enough there were .gif and .jpg files there. Then I
> understood part of the reason why it was so slow even running
> on the ram disk.
Since at least 1.50b, and probably much earlier,
Desktop-Options-Preferences & Performance-uncheck the "Auto download
inline images" box-OK, save-use new settings turns off all image
downloading and speeds surfing tremendously. And no prompt of "verifying
images".
Just tested turning off image *display* with 1.60b1 ("~" key). No images
are displayed, and no new ones are downloaded. No idea what this does
with earlier versions; I always turned images off in settings.
> (I still think Arachne has major memory
> problems, but that's another issue.)
I might not say major, but I definitely wouldn't call it minor. X based
apps attempt to do their own memory allocation, and it's quite difficult
to find every instance of memory request and ask the OS for it first.
-- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
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