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> Preferably, yes. "Someone" should do that. Perhaps an eccentric
> millionaire will hire some programmers to adapt Arachne to todays's
> hardware. We can only hope.
Now we are getting a bit sarcastic, are we?
Given the fact that none of the thousands of Open Source programmers is
a millionaire or has been hired by one, they do a lot of work in little
time.
And like I stated before, I do not see any relation between that limit
and the hardware, be it modern or ancient.
> It's something of a miracle that Arachne scrolls at all considering
> it's origin in the frustrations of Czech college student in 1995
> with how slow Windows and Netscape ran on his 386!
> By the way Arachne is ten years old now. The first official release
> was in the spring of 1996.
Well, I sometimes wonder why Arachne is so slow on today's
lightning-fast machines on which other ten years old software runs so
fast that I have to use every trick I know to slow them down.
I really wonder if it was ever designed to run on a 386 class machine;
to me it seems more like it had been designed for a computer that has
yet to be constructed, for example, a 20 GHz 986.
I would be very interested in a profiling version of Arachne to see
which routines need to be optimised. Specifically, I would like to know
what Arachne is doing while displaying these ominous "adjusting images,
tables and frames" or "verifying images" messages that takes several
minutes on some web pages even on multi-GHz machines.
Also, I would like to know why Arachne has to redraw the whole screen
every now and then while scrolling instead of drawing the screen *once*
and then simply scroll it and just redraw the parts that had been
clipped.
Regards,
Udo
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