OpenEuphoria

Re: speed of text display

• Posted by "Igor Kachan" <kinz at peterlink.ru> May 07, 2005
• 445 views

JasonDube wrote:

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> From: JasonDube <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
> To: EUforum at topica.com
> Subject: speed of text display
> Sent: 7 may 2005 y. 19:26
> 
> 
> posted by: JasonDube <dubetyrant at hotmail.com>
> 
> Why does it take so long to print a bunch of lines?
> 
> when I do:
> for i = 1 to 400 by 1 do
>      puts (1, "exampleexampleexampleexampleetcetcet")
> end for
> 
> it takes forever. Not that it is a very
> important point,or I would ever need a program
> to do this. but I just wanted to know why.
> I know it couldnt be because the interpreter is
> slow. It takes probably over a minute just to
> do that.
> 
> 
> I would make a good member of a large crowd :)

On a P4 1.8GHz puter, it takes just 21.81 sec
for 40000, not for 400, loops.
It is good speed.

Check please your machine for viruses, some of them
can slow down the screen output very much.

Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru