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- From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
- Subject: Re: OS 'Move/Draw' speed
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.232345.9802@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:23:45 GMT
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- In <1ikc6nINNi3q@mercury.kingston.ac.uk> cs_e445@ceres (Vlod Kalicun) writes:
- >I am writing a program which will do loads of writepixels (in C).
- >Is it really that slow. (Haven't finished it yet tho.)
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- Yep, writing single pixels is slow. Mainly because it needs to convert
- an x,y coordinate to memory addresses and probably do some clipping.
- The function call itself also adds some overhead.
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- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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