1. RE: RE: assembly
Without knowing what the end result is, this is difficult to optimize.
My interpretation is that phl is a sequence of length 256 containing
coordinates and a color. You are stepping through your list and if a
color is equal to variable i, then draw a 'circle' at that element's
coordinates.
If you want this in assembly, I can only assume that this loop is being
executed frequently. Perhaps another technique to accomplish the same
effect might be in order. Typically palette manipulation is much faster
than re-drawing stuff but this might not be helpful if your coordinates
are also changing frequently. Another technique that might prove useful
is to do your drawing on a virtual screen and update your visible screen
as appropriate.
If you are sure assembly is the way to go, then I won't be much help to
you. However, if you'd like to provide more info and discuss
alternatives, feel free to send me an email.
-- Brian
Evan Marshall wrote:
> sequence phl phl = {{{x1,y1},a1},{{x2,y2},a2},...{{xn,yn},an}}
>
> for b = 1 to 256 do
> c = phl[b][1][1]
> d = phl[b][1][2]
> if phl[b][2] = i then
> ellipse(phl[b][2],1,{c-2,d-2},{c+1,d+1})
> end if
> end for
>
> P.S. I had to create variables c and d because when I had the element
> directly in the ellipse function, the first y value never changed
> (!?).
> i.e. {1,2},{4,2}..{10,2},{14,2}
>
>
> Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> wrote:
> >
> > Evan,
> >
> > Are you sure you need assembly? Perhaps if you share your bit of
> code
> > you might be suprised at what optimizations could be made just using
> > Euphoria sequence operations...
> >
> > -- Brian
> >
> > > I have a bit of code that would be sped up immensely with a bit of
> > > assembly. The problem is that I haven't done any assembly
> programming
> > > since the late-mid '80's. Does any one know where I can find a
> simple
> > > tutorial on assembly and/or a list of opcodes in hex (or binary).
> > > Specifically, I need to load a sequence into memory, check each
> > > element, and return a result depending on the status of the
> element.
> > > The sequence is in the form of
> > > {{{x1,y1},a1}},{{x2,y2},a2},...{{xn,yn},an}}
