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From: kdmoen@watcgl.UUCP (Doug Moen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Quickdraw benchmarks
Message-ID: <1905@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-May-85 18:07:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 24 18:07:39 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 25-May-85 07:21:27 EDT
Reply-To: kdmoen@watcgl.UUCP (Doug Moen)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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I wanted to find out the fastest way to draw horizontal and vertical
lines in Quickdraw.  Here are some results:

I chose to compare 3 methods:
- CopyBits from a prepared bitmap containing the line
- PaintRect using a long, skinny rectangle
- MoveTo, LineTo

Vertical line 50 x 1 pixels:
  CopyBits    .250 ticks
  PaintRect   .168 ticks
  LineTo      .079 ticks

Horizontal line 1 x 50 pixels
  CopyBits    .084 ticks
  PaintRect   .073 ticks
  LineTo      .069 ticks