[Kstars-devel] Re: kdeedu/kstars/kstars

[Jason Harris]

On Wednesday 19 May 2004 10:40 pm, Pablo de Vicente wrote:
> Furthermore, I may do the same thing for the Galactic coordinates and
> we will possibly reduce the memory footprint by another 10 MB. The
> galactic coordinates are not used frequently and we may modify
> EquatorialToGalactic() and GalacticToEquatorial() so that the
> coordinates are computed online and not stored on private members. I
> will study how to do this.
>
Ah, good.  I'd forgotten that we store Galactic coordinates!

> On the other hand it is a pity because the other solution was, IMHO,
> aesthatecially better, although we paid a memory penalty, but again,
> it is not worth using it.
>
Yes, I agree; it's too bad.  In classes that aren't so heavily used it 
wouldn't matter, but in this case we should keep it as small as we can.

Jason
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