Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!templar!jbickers Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Peter, can you explain to the Amigoids (was: NeXT software size Message-ID: <3525.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) Date: Sat, 10 May 1991 07:17:52 GMT References: <11905@uwm.edu> <1991May8.013155.14300@neon.Stanford.EDU> <3394.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1991May9.173914.6203@neon.Stanford.EDU> Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG. Lines: 21 Quoted from by peterm@am.dsir.govt.nz (Peter McGavin): > jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes: > > You _can_ estimate though, particularly if the programs have the > > same functionality, and if you've seen this heuristic succeed a > Fast CPU-based line-drawing algorithms are often huge compared with standard > ones. The inner loop is replicated for every colour combination. Certainly. I've been doing this myself recently, for various purposes. That's why I added the thing about seeing this heuristic succeed a few times. For a number of applications you can probably tell from the context that the thing is larger in order to be faster, but I don't think the NeXT software is giving this impression at all. And it helps if one has seen the various sides of the argument so that one can recognise the context in the first place. > Peter McGavin. (peterm@am.dsir.govt.nz or srwmpnm@wnv.dsir.govt.nz) -- *** John Bickers, TAP, NZAmigaUG. jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz *** *** "Endless variations, make it all seem new" - Devo. ***