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From: chas@gtss.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Blitzwhat? Here're DME's timings (& clarification)
Message-ID: <124@gtss.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-May-87 18:11:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: gtss.124
Posted: Tue May 26 18:11:39 1987
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Reply-To: chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland)
Organization: Georgia Tech School of Physics
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In article <122@gtss.UUCP> chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland) [that's me]
writes:
>A non-BCPL Copy (cp) has just been posted.  Anyone want to compare its speed
>with AmigaDos's Copy to address the point raised by Bryce?  Not me, I refuse

OK, I volunteer.  Using my by-now-standard scrolling and non-scrolling
text files I get no measurable difference between Cp and Copy.  I suspect
that Copy is slower that DME because DME can take advantage of the knowledge
that it *never* has to scroll.  It must take advantage of something.  But I've
never seen DME's source:  would the author care to summarize how he sped up
it's output?

Kim has pointed out to me that I have used Blitz where I meant BlitzFont.
Let me clarify.  I have never mentioned Blitz intentionally except to say
that that wasn't what I was talking about.  Blitz is a file viewer which
goes like blue blazes.  BlitzFont accelerates text output for other
applications (which also go like blue blazes if they give BlitzFont a
chance).
-- 
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