Thread: iLiad Speeding up the system?
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Old 05-06-2008, 08:15 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by rincewind View Post
For example, opening a PDF, ipdf must first be loaded, it then has to read the file, then render the page, then do a screen refresh (1 second). Saving render-state on close, load the last page (as a picture) etc would make this faster, but is more difficult.
Saving the last-rendered page as a picture when quitting iPDF would only be useful if you load the exact same PDF next time you start up iPDF, i.o.w. only help as part of a quick-startup feature. Since the boot time is vastly longer, I don't think it would make much sense to add this optimization to iPDF (yet).

What would help a lot, in my humble opinion, is to get rid of X. The iLiad only uses full-screen, custom applications anyway. We would be deprived of some (cool) ported software, but gain a system with less overhead.
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