#Loading those images…
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Wayne, FYI: IM R/t will use pretty much exactly the same amount of ram in
_total_ that AdPro does to load any particular image. However, IM R/t's
memory management is different – we ask the system for multiple small
chunks of memory, while adpro asks for one large one. This can in _some_
systems make the difference between loading, and not loading. For
instance, if you have 8 megs in two four meg blocks that are not
contiguous, IM can load a 6 meg image with ease – AdPro will not. The
advantage to AdPro's method is speed; the advantage to ours is simply the
ability to load things under tighter memory situations (and we also give
the memory back to the system when you, the user, unload the image…
which has it's own merit, or so we think).
–Ben
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I've got an info request in for the Syndesis PICT loader. First one can
load the 1024x512x32bits PICT wins. :^}
wmc – via Autopilot!
Fair enough. :^)
–Ben
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Ben,
Your memory management is certainly a big plus. I've been happily multitasking
on my 10M A3000 for 3 years now, and couldn't possibly keep track of all the
times when memory was tight, but I could still work in ImageMaster after
Imagine had been rendering for 3 days and memory was obviously severely
fragmented. "God is in the details", said Albert Einstein. (I hope <g>)
Blaq!