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- From: yeproy@imaginet.fr (UNREGISTERED VERSION)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Is MUI processor intensive?
- Date: 10 Feb 1996 20:19:09 GMT
- Organization: ImagiNET
- Message-ID: <1843.6614T1133T2864@imaginet.fr>
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- Paul Dossett wrote :
-
- >>You are spoiled by the speed of gadtools. I happily use MUI on my
- >>7MHz A2000 with a slow 30MB harddisk and 3MB RAM.
- >
- > You're insane! :)
- >
- > MUI seems sluggish on my 33Mhz 040. Luckily nothing useful needs it or
- > I'd be in trouble!
-
- [TEASING MODE ON]
-
- Could it be because of a very inefficient design of your '040 board?
- With my 28MHz only PPS 040 for A2000, MUI is almost undetectable... ;-)
-
- [TEASING MODE OFF]
-
- Speed and memory usage has improved with versions 3.x of MUI, try it if
- you haven't already.
-
- By the way if you're asking much from MUI (window patterns and all...),
- MUI will ask much from your CPU and graphics circuitry, it's unavoidable.
-
- Furthermore, as I can see from your signature that you still use ECS modes
- for your screens (another explanation for slow layout), you probably haven't
- bumped into programs that looks good with the original screen and font sizes
- but look awful in a RTG environment (e.g. Topaz is horrible on my 1024x768
- screens, and programs using hardcoded gadget layout without hardcoded Topaz
- often give surprising results).
-
- MUI is *flexible*, and the CPU power it uses is the price paid for flexbility.
- MUI is flexible for end-users, but for developpers too. Everybody who tried
- to prototype an application with MUIBuilder know what I mean. And if this
- is an *advantage* for developpers, it becomes an advantage for /end-users/, as
- developpers can focus on the /features/ of their applications, instead of
- loosing their time at redesigning the same window layout again and again.
-
- Whatever may be, MUI doesn't require the power of, say, a low-end Pentium,
- to layout windows nicely and smoothly... ;-)
-
- Regards,
-
- Yann
-
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