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From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Text Drawing at speeds in excess of
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Date: 23 Jan 89 22:20:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!leonardr    Jan 23 16:20:00 1989


jmunkki@hut.fi(Juri Munkki) writes in comp.sys.mac.programmer

>In article <226000053@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>grg@berlin.acss.umn.edu(* *) writes in comp.sys.mac.programmer
>>>(1)  Don't use drawchar.  There's too much overhead in drawing 1 char
>>>(2) You then may find the bottleneck is in scrolling the screen.  You can
>
>>   Well as one of the authors of MicroPhone II, I can say that not only have
>>we been listening but if you look closely you will see that the current 
>>shipping version of MicroPhone II does both of the above.
>
>What is the current shipping version? We got version 2.0 from Computerware
>just two or three months ago. It doesn't seem to be all that fast.
>
	V2.0 is the current shipping version, and I never claimed it was fast - I
simply said that we are already doing what was recommended.  We have gone 
beyond this, as well as fixed some overhead, in version 3.0 which is due
to ship in April.

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