Posted by J.O. Aho on 02/26/07 08:47

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Scripsit windandwaves:
>
>> If you have a large image does it make sense to slice it to make it
>> load faster?
>
> No, just the opposite. It takes more time to transfer the data (due to
> various overhead factors like HTTP transaction) and more time to
> assemble the image. Perhaps worst of all, users may see the image being
> built from slices in some order, possibly in some strange order.

Not to mention that the sliced image takes more space with the image type and
other extra data. The sliced image takes more hard drive space than the single
image, specially on file systems with high block size that don't support
multiple files to use one block.


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//Aho

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