1. Jiri's text.e
- Posted by Lucius Hilley <lhilley at CDC.NET> Dec 01, 1998
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I saw stated that you generally poke and entire sequence instead of one byte at a time because it is generally faster. Well I don't disagree with the speed of pokeing entire sequences. I do however feel that in the case of BUILDING the color coded sequence to be poked you lose some speed. It is suprisingly faster to poke a character then poke its color than it is to build the sequence of character and its color and then poke the sequence. Of course you may now some sequence magic that I haven't come across as of yet. I believe in my attempt I used. function build_string(sequence text, integer color) integer l, inc integer color-- assume this contains both foreground & background. sequence s l = length(s) * 2 s = repeat(color, l) inc = 1 for A = 1 to l by 2 do s[A] = text[inc] inc = inc + 1 end for return s end function I also notice that your fill_block could be optimized. First you must build and keep a pattern for faster building of the sequence. sequence pattern pattern = repeat(0, 4000)--max screen size for A = 2 to 4000 by 2 do pattern[A] = 1 end for global procedure fill_block(integer row,integer column,integer width, integer height, integer char) -- fill given block using character char and current color attributes sequence s integer a,w w=2*width s=repeat(char,w) -- for i=2 to w by 2 do s[i]=ca end for -- Your code s = s + pattern[1..w] * ca -- My code a=so+2*(row-1)*nc+2*(column-1) -- top left corner w=2*nc for h=1 to height do poke(a,s) a=a+w end for end procedure _________________________ Lucius L. Hilley III lhilley at cdc.net http://www.cdc.net/~lhilley http://www.americanantiques.com http://www.dragonvet.com _________________________
2. Re: Jiri's text.e
- Posted by Jiri Babor <J.Babor at GNS.CRI.NZ> Dec 02, 1998
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Dear Lucius, Are you trying to rewrite the recent history? Allow me to refresh your memory. On 23 Nov 1998, subject Fastest Print to Screen, you recommended Hilley's Utilities: llh-e.zip. A couple of days later, when one of your unfortunate customers moaned about the hilarious lack of color, you produced another, this time colorized version. I tested your fast_puts against the normal puts and my write. I used 10,000 screen writes of the standard string s = "Lucius Hilley III", on a P II, 266 MHz machine, under NT 4.00: puts: 1.41 s Hilley's fast_puts: 0.94 s my write: 0.27 s In your last note on the subject you kindly introduced me, with considerable hindsight and a perfectly straight face to your latest creation, your build_string function. Surely you must know by now that is essentially the method I used in my write... And as to your 'optimization' advice, I hope you have already checked it and you are not really serious. jiri
3. Re: Jiri's text.e
- Posted by Albert Brauneis <Dajawu36 at AOL.COM> Dec 01, 1998
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Hey someone told me to go to pete's site to get a program that will convert ASM to that code you can use in Euphoria. What is the URL? Albert