Alexander R. Pruss wrote: > I guess we need to promote a whole bunch of Int16s to > Int32s. This is going to degrade performance, but How badly is performance degraded? As in, is it worth avoiding this change where it isn't needed? I suppose a custom font of one character/screen could trigger it on anything. Should the viewer handle "size too big" differently? Perhaps treating the record as if it were several shorter records? Would it be worth using Int16 on non-hires? On medium-res like HandEra? How about limiting the record size to less than 32K, at least as an option? Or at least warning when it creates a record large enough to cause problems? (and in another message) > Since the structure of the metadata has had to be > changed, Cleaner MUST be run to delete the temp files before > running this version. What exactly does cleaner remove? Having to repluck reference documents is a reason not to upgrade. Losing font and command preferences is just an annoyance. If all I lost was the information on which documents had already been read, then I wouldn't mind at all - in fact, I would suggest making a check for prefs version (and cleaning if required) part of the main program. (I suspect that people sticking to non-beta releases will update rarely enough that the preferences have almost always changed on them.) -jJ
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