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From: dvorak@vaxa.cc.uwa.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Slow NewPtr on fx
Message-ID: <1990Sep8.072134.2219@vaxa.cc.uwa.oz.au>
Date: 7 Sep 90 23:21:34 GMT
References: <478@nih-csl.nih.gov>
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In article <478@nih-csl.nih.gov>, wayne@helix.nih.gov (Wayne Rasband) writes:
> NewPtr call used to allocate the 64K PixMap for each window was taking 
> about 1/4 second on the cx, and an incredible five seconds(!!!) on the fx. 

Sounds impossible to me.Is the MMU turned on in the fx, remapping things?
I doubt it would intoduce that sort of a delay though...Have you accidently
turned on the CLEAR option? Is there some sort of heap-checking proc in effect?
At 40Mhz, nothing should take 5 seconds...

Darko Volaric.
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