[Scummvm-devel] R: Re: Dynamic Plugins (uncached) - optimization

[Johannes Schickel]

On 01/26/2014 05:48 AM, sunmax at libero.it wrote:
>>
>> This makes me wonder: Is this an issue for other ports using our ELF
>> loader? I think the PSP and Wii use this one too and I cannot remember
>> reports on that slow detection times there. Did you try to investigate
>> why plugin loading is that slow on the PS2?
> Good point. I assume USB 1.0 is the limit when you store the plugins/games on
> PS2 USB key (as most PS2 users do).
>
> The best solution is still to load only the single plugin that is needed both
> when we start the game, and when adding new games, if we can have the folder
> name shortcut optimization in place. And to boot as uncached, so we get to the
> Launcher GUI very fast ;-)
>


I think it would be better to find out why loading is that slow first 
and see whether we cannot optimize that before we try to implement some 
more complicated solution.

// Johannes