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From: mark@valent.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine)
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Subject: Re: Problems with xv-3.00a and a question.
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 03:36:24 +0000
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In article <s902150.758036914@numbat>
s902150@numbat.cs.rmit.OZ.AU "Brian Havard" writes:
> Who mentioned JPEGs? It takes ages just to start before it event gets
> a look at an image file. Also, memory isn't a problem as I was able to
> load up and display a JPEG with NO swapping occuring. It just takes
> forever. Seems to me that it must be using floating point alot and a
> 386 without co-pro makes it crawl.
I reckon it's hitting some problems in the FP emulation code, since it
spends a good few minutes in the *kernel* (where FP emulation is done)
before starting on my 16Mb 486SX...
Once it starts up, loading of JPEGs is just *fine*!
(The FP code in the last released versions of FreeBSD/NetBSD is known
to be problematical, but I don't know if this is one of the known symptoms.
There's better code on the way.)
Mark.