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From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Jerky Updates
Message-ID: <17932@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 5 Nov 90 18:52:36 GMT
References: <1774MAYER-A@RICEVM1>
Reply-To: mxmora@unix.UUCP (Matt Mora)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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In article <1774MAYER-A@RICEVM1> MAYER-A@RICEVM1.BITNET (David Mayer) writes:

>I have not changed anything in the code except the size of the
>rectangles that I store in the update region.  Is there some secret to
>smooth updates that I need to know??

You might want to try and set your rectangles sizes to some multiple
of 8,16, or 32. This might help speed things up because the processor
can move data around more efficently at even word boundries. 

Just a thought. If all else fails you can use offscreen buffers.


>Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
>
>David Mayer  (MAYER-A@RICEVM1  Bitnet)


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