Path: utzoo!utdoe!generic!pnet91!taob From: taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Viewimg GIFs (why is a 286 faster?) Message-ID: <214@generic.UUCP> Date: 23 Nov 90 16:30:07 GMT Sender: root@generic.UUCP Organization: People-Net [pnet91], Etobicoke, ON Lines: 38 From haynes@unssun.nevada.edu (Kenneth Haynes): > Ok everyone.... > > Why does a GIF File only take a few seconds to pop up on a 286 when > my GS takes up to an hour using SHRConvert? > > Is there a faster GIF/converter out there???? There is of course the difference in computational speeds between the 65816 and the 80286 CPU's. I also suspect the '286 having more registers and a 32-bit data path might have something to do with it as well. Maybe the GIF decoding algorithm has been optimized to run on Intel's instruction set. Try Jonah Stich's GIF.3200 converter. It will process a 320x200 GIF in under 30 seconds on an unaccelerated GS. It's much better than SHRConvert, and it is also shareware. You might want to check out SuperConvert, but I have yet to hear anyone's comments on it. > "What do you mean we ran out of gas?" ______-==-______ > ____-------=----------------=-------____ > ________________ _ _- --------________________-------- > (______________(_||_) _______ / > /_____/_____ _- > Capt Ken Haynes \__________- > CO, USS L'Hopital > Taylor Series Class Starship > NCC-x^ln(1701) United Federation of Calculus Haters > haynes@unssun.unr.edu or haynes@tahoe.unr.edu :-) :-) :-) I love your sig! First-year calculus? \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ | Brian T. Tao | UUCP: torag!pnet91!taob | / \ | University of Toronto | INET: taob@pnet91.cts.com | \ The Apple II / | Scarberia, ON | taob@pro-micol.cts.com | / Lives On!! \ |:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::| \ / | "Computer guru? Someone who got their computer a | /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ | couple of weeks before you did." (Alvin Toffler) |