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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Quickdraw efficiency question
Message-ID: <8116@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 25 Jul 89 04:41:29 GMT
References: <1681@neoucom.UUCP> <2803@internal.Apple.COM> <1304@intercon.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <1304@intercon.UUCP> amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker) writes:
>For terminal emulators, anyway, you get much bigger wins by working on
>the emulator and serial port  buffering code.  I suspect that one reason
>that people like to claim that using the ROM to draw character is "too slow"
>is so that they can claim that their program's lack of performance is
>someone else's fault...

Not me!  In my case, it was the Memory Manager that was too slow!  :-)
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

"The above opinions and suggestions have absolutely nothing to do with
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