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Weak hashtables & aggressive caching

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Date:	2006-08-14 (18:19)
From:	Richard Jones <rich@a...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Weak hashtables & aggressive caching

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:28:39AM -0600, Matt Gushee wrote:
> Wait a minute, though. According to the Gdk reference manual, 
> <http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk/gdk-Pixbufs.html#id2861842>
> 
>   Pixbufs are client-side images.

Ah right, pixbufs, pixmaps ...  In that case why bother preloading
them at all?  eog is flagrant with regards to pixmaps because the
developers believe it allows them to display images quickly (the
images are already on the X server, converted from JPEGs into raw
pixels).  In this age of fast CPUs and slow RAM this is unlikely to be
the case.

Rich.

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