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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga programmers in deep shit...
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 22:04:17 +0100
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- sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem) writes:
-
- > Read again... do you see your wrong assumtion? Do you know the
- > concept of a display list? did you even understand what I was talking
- > about?
-
- > Having a writepixels(displaylist) is used to write random pixels,
- > not to write a Hline...
-
- You seem to have no idea what a display list is either.
-
- > Now have 5000 pixel in your array... what is faster? The loop above
- > calling setpen/writepixel 5000 time?
-
- Probably takes the same amount of time if you include the time necessary
- to _create_ that list.
-
- > This example apply to lines or any other primitive too,
- > but less dramatic.
-
- That's why you chose the worst cases deliberatly.
-
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- Michael van Elst
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