Re: [NSImage imagedNamed:] and application startup tuning

[Fred Kiefer]

Michael Hanni wrote:
> [NSImage imageNamed:] provides a very easy way to grab images. You can simply
> provide a name, minus even an extension, and NSImage will find your image.
> However, this can be more intensive than required when you already know your
> image's extension. For example, when you strace a gnustep app right now there
> are hundreds of attempts to find images -- this method loops through every
> possible directory with every possible image extension until it finds the right
> one -- used in the AppKit. The time involved is not huge, but it is entirely
> unnecessary I think. With the attached patch I've added a '.tiff' extention to
> most images loaded in the AppKit.

Not sure if this is the best way to get a better speed at startup. There 
is even one small drawback, we may on some system have to use the 
extension of '.tif' if we ever port GNUstep to such a dump platform. So 
I had to think up something better, and here it is:

Loading the tiff images is so slow because on systems where WRaster is 
available GNUstep first tries all the formats provided by WRaster before 
looking for TIFF files. Switching this order around, i.e. looking first 
for '.tiff', should result in the same speedup. Please test this and 
give me your comments. If this is not enough we should of course use 
your patch.