[Scummvm-devel] Kyrandia engine loading is slow on the DS

[Florian Kagerer]

Did you try it with the patch committed in r34083 (branch only)?

Florian




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[mailto:scummvm-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] Im Auftrag von Max Horn
Gesendet: Freitag, 22. August 2008 10:56
An: scummvm-devel devel
Betreff: Re: [Scummvm-devel] Kyrandia engine loading is slow on the DS

Hi Neil,

thanks for investigating this. Just to make sure: Were your tests done  
with a build made including the changes made in rev r34056, which  
backported
r34055, which was: "Committed patch #2055831 "KYRA: ResFileEntry  
parent cache optimization"." ?

I assume that was the case, but I want to double check, just in case,  
as this patch could potentially affect the issue (Bertrand but some  
great effort into analyzing and reducing the CPU & fopen usage in the  
Kyra startup code with that patch).



Cheers,
Max


Am 22.08.2008 um 10:14 schrieb Neil Millstone:
[...]
> Hi Max & Team,
>
> I have done a little more digging around this issue, and have found  
> that
> the DS fopen does indeed use a cache, in fact it looks like I  
> increased
> the cache size in the Kyrandia build in 0.11.1 order to help this
> issue.  Unfortunately, even with this, it seems the time taken to load
> the game is not spent in the DS backend.  Without a profiler it's hard
> to say why it's so slow, but the engine does seem to search various
> tables for files before it tries to open them on disk.  Perhaps this  
> is
> just too much for the DS's 66Mhz CPU.  I dare not change the Kyra
> loader, it looks extremely complex to me and I don't really understand
> how it works.
>
> So, for now, this issue will have to be in the release notes, although
> I'm sure I will get complaints about it, since this worked in 0.11.1.
>
> - Neil
>
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