[CF-Devel] client image handling changes.

[Scott MacFiggen]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 09:09:38PM -0800, Mark Wedel wrote:
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       But what thing I plan to do unless there is a very vocal outcry is make
     
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      cache_images behaviour the only supported option.  This is done to simplify the
     
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      code, and the cases where you would not want to use that cache behaviour are
     
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      very limited (the only case readily available is if you are playing on a server
     
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      with very close (eg, LAN) connectivity and don't ever plan to play on other
     
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      servers).
     
     
The only complaint I have about this has to do with how the client currently
caches images. At the moment when I play on a LAN server using image
caching is actually slower because the client stores each image in a 
seperate file in the cache directory. So everytime I get an image it
has to open a file, write the data, and close the file which results in a
disk sync. Using a single memory mapped based file would probably be
better, and much faster.

	-Scott