[racket-dev] Caching rendered icons

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Fri Jan 13 19:40:04 EST 2012

An hour and a half ago, Robby Findler wrote:
> I don't think we want to actually deploy _that_ DrRacket on a desktop
> (one where the construction of the rendered images happens during
> startup).

What I suggested would lead to having that delay at startup, but other
than that it would work fine.  Meanwhile, requiring cario (etc) for
all builds means that there's a whole market (= servers) that is
getting neglected, and IMO that's a substantial loss.

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