[Lazarus] startlazarus and memory consumption

Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hestermann at gmx.de
Thu Jul 16 10:48:29 CEST 2009


> Putting a splash screen up stopped all the complaints of "It takes 
> _ages_ to load". The funny thing it is takes precisely the same amount 
> of time to load to a point of fully functional now, but the users all 
> said "Wow you sped up the loading *heaps*". It's a little psychological 
> I guess. 

That's true. But instead of a cheap splash screen I would expect such 
applications to give some information about *what* it is doing (while 
doing it). Of course, it costs more time to code but to me it shows that 
the programmers take care of the users.





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