Re: [BUG] tracked down: panel takes ages to start

[Gleef <dzol virtual-yellow com>]

On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Chris Evans wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have worked out why my panel takes several seconds at 90%+ CPU to
> launch.
> 
> There is some big inefficiency somewhere parsing .xpm files. My panel
> background is a 180k .xpm file.
> 
> When launching ee on the same file it also takes ages to start up!!

Try converting the file to .png or .gif format, if that fixes the problem
than it definately sounds like a bug in the xpm system (png and gif are
almost by definition slower, except xpm requires much more I/O).

-Gleef