Re: Rob: Reply about OW 1.4 full-screen issue

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Robert Craig wrote:

> Igor Kachan wrote:

[snip]

> > 
> > On ex_r.exe I have 0.879 .. 0.930  sec,
> > on ex.exe   I have 22.36 .. 22.41  sec.
> > 
> > The machine I use is P4 1.8Gz, nVIDIA videocard.
> 
> I also have a P4 1.8GHz with nVIDIA video card.
> 
> Yes, your SVGA demo runs much faster with ex.exe built with
> OW 1.4 than with 10.6. And with 10.6 I had to add: use_vesa(1), 
> and it still hung up a couple of times.
> 
> However, when I tried VGA (mode 18) the speed was the same.
> 
> This is useful information.
> Maybe you'll eventually convince me to switch.

Any one can use bilingual ex_r.exe to get faster
interpretation for SVGA just now, so the problem
is not that urgent and you have some time for better
testing of OW_1.4..1.x, Rob.

> For now, translator users can use OW1.4 to get much faster 
> SVGA graphics than with the interpreter. Their programs 
> might run correctly on more graphics cards too.

Yes, translated/compiled with OW_1.4 that program
gives 0.659 .. 0.714 sec in SVGA mode.

To Vincent: I use just 2 calls of time() in that test,
so there is almost nothing to do with time() in that program,
it is not a multitasking one.

Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru

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