on 3/5/01 5:48 PM, Russell Allen at russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com wrote:

>> 3770JPEGDecoder-ar -- Andreas Raab -- 4 March 2001
>> Several improvements for JPEG reading. Provides a plugin for three critical
>> methods in the decoder speeding things up roughly by a factor of 15 (there is
>> probably another speedup of 2-3 in the prims itself but right now I can't be
>> bothered to go looking for it). Even the simulated version is about 10%
>> faster. Test results against a 1280x1024 picture resulted in:
>> Old:  56 seconds.
>> New:  49 seconds (without plugin)
>> 3.3 seconds (with plugin)
>> Also provides primitives for reading 32bit signed integers from word-indexed
>> objects (e.g., IntegerArray). The above values were based on a VM that *did*
>> have those primitives; otherwise the results of the simulation would be WAY
>> slower.
> 
> Thank you, thank you, thank you!
> 
> Is this plugin going to be available seperately, or will it be built in?
> (And can I vote for built in, please?)

Can I vote for a modular Squeak instead?

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