Re: slow startup on windows

Thank God for COBOL.

https://www.mainframestechhelp.com/examples/cobol/array.htm

I don't know if my image will get through the list.

You need the beauty of fixed length strings. For 4 dimensions you just 
have a packed struct with 4 fixed length strings, not FXString objects. 
Then you do one huge malloc at program start.

I haven't looked under the hood of Fox for a while, but most graphical 
string classes aren't "just storing ASCII bytes." Most have a UTF 
encoding, then they assign a font or at least calculate the display 
width in case it is needed, etc.

In-memory SQLite table is still the path of best design though.

On 10/25/2024 9:55 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> On 2024-10-25 09:27, Enno Rehling wrote:
>> I second what Roland says, don't load all those strings into memory,
>> or at least not into FXString objects, if you can at all help it.
>
> Definitely true, but we have sh*tloads of ram these days and I could
> load the complete works of william shakespeare in RAM and not remotely
> tax the amount of memory of even a raspberry pi.
>
> At an average sentence length of 80 bytes, times 500,000 is only 40 MB.
> Size of a single uncompressed 4K image...
>
> It *is* a lot of mallocs() if each of these is an individual block,
> each taking perhaps 2000 cycles to allocate, so on a 1GHz CPU takes
> around 1 second.
>
>
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