Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!ernie!bazyar From: bazyar@ernie (Jawaid Bazyar) Subject: Curses Message-ID: <1991Apr17.144039.12090@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@m.cs.uiuc.edu (News Database (admin-Mike Schwager)) Nntp-Posting-Host: ernie.cs.uiuc.edu Reply-To: bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar) Organization: Mutation Testing Facility, University of Illinois References: Date: Wed, 17 Apr 91 14:40:39 GMT Lines: 11 I played around with this a little bit. It is dastardly slow. It would seem that a fair amount of assembly code is in order here, since the author said that with virtual windowing it was even slower. Since I consider 100% compatibility a necessity, I would suggest the author rewrite the buffer handling code and the screen update code in assembly. -- Jawaid Bazyar | "Twenty seven faces- with their eyes turned to Senior/Computer Engineering | the sky. I have got a camera, and an airtight bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu | alibi.." Apple II Forever! | I need a job... Be priviliged to pay me! :-)