Re: speed of text display
- Posted by Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson at gmail.com> May 07, 2005
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JasonDube wrote: > > sorry. > I forgot to add that I was in graphics mode 18.So, this is the code verbatum. > > -------------- > include graphics.e > object gfx > gfx = graphics_mode(18) > > for i = 1 to 400 by 1 do > puts(1,"01234567890123456789012345678901234567890...etc to 80 characters") > end for > --------------- > > This is the code in totality. It takes about 87 seconds. I want to know why it > takes > so long. > > I have a pentium 1.4 gig with Windows 2000 > > Thanks & sorry for not including this detail ;( > Windows 2000 emulates DOS, and, I have no idea how far it emulates dos... Printing that text is infact a dos call, which is emulated by windows 2000. So, it's probably windows' problem. To check, you could find yourself a copy of qb4.5, set SCREEN 12, and then print out a few lines. If that is equally slow, it's proved that it has nothing to do with euphoria. A workaround would be to print the text yourself. Regards, Alexander Toresson