Graphics and memory opinions

[Daniel J Sebald]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> 2008/12/13 John W. Eaton <jwe at octave.org>:
> 
> 
>>But I thought we were doing this in a
>>reasonbly efficient way now.  Or maybe we only discussed fixing it and
>>no one did the work.  I can't remember.
> 
> 
> Yeah, I think we discussed it, and I never did the work. But I was
> complaining about speed of loading, not memory usage.

Well, that too.  Of course loading formatted I/O will be only so fast, but my feeling is that significant decrease in speed can be achieved.  Going to swap memory, though, makes things really slow.

Dan