goodbye slow rez?????

My very casual, qualitative testing of today's patches 1.7.1(1) and 1.7.1(2) seem to have radically improved the slow texture load problems that have plaguing 1.6.x onward and were worst in 1.7.0.

With a cleared cache, even places like the avatar heavy Ahern WA were loading in seconds instead of minutes (1.6) or never (1.7.0).

It looks as if someone might have found the "OMFG" line in the texture loader. If so, congratulations. I hope my quick checks are repeatable.

edit: back to slow rez, oh well.