On Aug 30, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> tim Rowledge wrote:
>> A splash screen should be configurable in some way. Ideally it  
>> ought to be generated by the image! The *real* problem here is the  
>> whole " if the time to show something interesting is a couple of  
>> seconds" part. There really isn't much of  an excuse for such a  
>> delay.
>
> You mean loading the image and relocating pointers is no excuse?  
> Running the startup code, redrawing the screen? No excuses either?  
> Even a basic image takes about a second to start (the delay between  
> launching it and seeing something is noticeable); if you actually  
> do anything when you start the image or if you simply have larger  
> images it easily takes longer.

Actually I recall (years ago I last looked) is that we make multiple  
passes thru object memory to fix things up before starting. Although  
this is 'fast' I've always
felt it could be reduced to a single pass and post work on remembered  
objects.

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