Damn! Keyboard fumble sent this before I had finished typing.

On 30-Aug-07, at 9:40 AM, tim Rowledge wrote:

>
> On 30-Aug-07, 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?
>
> It's a *reason* but not an *excuse*. Yes, there is a load of  
> assorted stuff done as the VM starts up and loads the image (which  
> could take several seconds on some machine/setups) and then as the  
> image starts up. That's the reason(s). The excuse really adds up to  
> "we haven't bothered to improve things". As John mentioned, it  
> seems likely that some of the VM related memory scanning could be  
> improved. Looking at the fairly intimidating list of things done as  
> part of the image startup I feel sure we could do a lot better -  
> not least by having a smaller simpler better thought out image in  
> the first place.
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>>> I don't think it would be appropriate to have a window of any  
>>> sort display when you are starting a Seaside server for example.  
>>> Or running on an IBM 3090. Or a signet ring.
>>
>> And which part of "optional" splash screen is so hard to  
>> understand? Remove splash.bmp and it's gone.

My *reason* for misunderstanding that is that I simply didn't absorb  
the (optional). Not a very good *excuse*.


tim
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