Practical question regarding my preloader

Hello there.

I’ve made a preloader that works basically like this. I load an swf and pass a couple of variables to it. The height and width and filename of the image, and the preloader then creates a simple percentage count-up from 0 to 100%.

I then have any number of preloaders on the screen at the same time, each showing the progress of each individual image im loading. Great for galleries and such.

The thing is, I’ve been wondering lately if this isnt making all of my webpages run considerably slower. Loading 100+ swf-files, even if its the same one over and over again, seems to be putting a lot of stress on my CPU.

Am I completely wrong here? Would it help if I turned this into a movieclip or something, that I just kept in the library? Maybe it would be simpler if I dynamically created the text-boxes that keeps the numBytesLoaded-info.

Does anyone have any suggestions? :tb: