OpenEuphoria

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