Re: [Wesnoth-dev] C++ streams and VC++6

[Yann Dirson]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 05:53:48PM -0500, David White wrote:
> In 0.9.0, we switched to using istreams to read files, instead of using 
> the C API.
> 
> Unfortunately it seems the istreams implementation that ships with VC++6 
> is very slow. It can take a very long time for an uncached game to load 
> a campaign -- up to a minute on my 2Ghz machine, and some users seem to 
> report it taking many minutes.

Well, the time to load files on the ipaq is also very long: more than
one minute to get the title screen, several minutes to launch httt.  I
cannot tell whether there was a slowdown in 0.9.0 (or even what the
bottleneck really is), but I'd welcome all improvements in this area
:)

Best regards,
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