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This problem is an example of applied creative problem solving and thus one of my favorites. Although the optimal solution wasn't viable under the given circumstances, some satisfactory measure could still be found and applied with relatively little effort.

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In an embedded project I was working on once, we had a problem with startup times, which is quite normal in embedded development. Besides the usual Linux kernel and uboot optimizations, we noticed that the SVG images we were using were slowing down the startup phase.

Let me spend a few words on this project's history first. At the beginning, the requirement for this project was that we should seamlessly scale the screen to different device...