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From: oster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: These 'acur' resources, am I missing something...
Message-ID: <22534@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 10 Jan 91 07:10:12 GMT
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In article <638.2783DEF7@busker.fidonet.org> Lawson.English@f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Lawson English) writes:
>What most people don't realize is that cursor animation can slow down a 
>program
>by 20 to 90% (if it is totally without disk I/O).
If it slows the program down by even 1%, you are doing it wrong.
Remember, you change the cursor picture maybe three times a second, and
the machine executes almost a million times faster than that.
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