On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:27:19 +0200
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Monday, 18 September 2006 13:17, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > "It is an option, so it is not important to get it right" is
> > > > ugly. It would be nice to actually benchmark this,
> > > 
> > > Agreed.
> > > 
> > > > and hardcode the option that provides acceptable performance...
> > > 
> > > That would be difficult, because it changes substantially from one
> > > machine to another (depends on the CPU speed, hard disk speed
> > > etc.).
> > 
> > Well, our task is "write image to disk, as fast as possible". That
> > should be doable, no?
> 
> The problem is on some machines the early writeout hurts performance
> and improves it on some others ...
> 
> > > But I think it only is useful with splash, isn't it?  

I don't really know, but the HOWTO says 'early writeout' actually speeds the
process up on some machines. 

> > > If so, we can hardcode something reasonable that will be used if
> > > splash_param is set and won't be used at all otherwise.
> > 
> > Hmm.. we can probably do that. Is smoothly-running progressbar
> > really all that important?

Apparently it is important to Jason;)

For me, it all depends on how much the trade of is. If it is an
unnoticeable difference (1-2 seconds) on average hardware, than I would
rather have a smooth progress bar. If it is more than that ...

grts Tim



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