.FLI Player is now twice as fast
I hacked away on Peter Blue's .FLI code and
managed to get it running twice as fast. It has
gone from about 4 frames per sec. up to now 8 frames
per second on a 486 DX-50.
The new version is on the Official Euphoria page.
(It still won't run any .FLI's that it wasn't able to before)
I did several small things, plus one big thing to speed it
up. The big thing was to change the algorithm slightly
so it calls pixel() fewer times, but with more pixels to print
each time. I believe a call to pixel() carries
an overhead of about 30 units, where one unit equals the
time to print one extra pixel (in a batch) on the screen.
So it's a big win to do a long horizontal line of pixels at a time,
rather than some short contiguous pieces.
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
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