Quickdraw efficiency question

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From: Scott A. Mason
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1989 22:27

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Question:

Which would be faster when drawing multiple characters to a window?

  1) repeated calls to DrawChar
  2) building a string and calling DrawString.

Intuitively, I would think that DrawString would be faster, but then again,
doesn't DrawString make repeated calls to DrawChar?  BTW, I want to do this
for a terminal emulation program, and want maximum screen drawing speed.

While I'm at it, how does Mackermit achieve such speedy screen drawing??

Thanks for the info.
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From: sam@neoucom.UUCP (Scott A. Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Quickdraw efficiency question
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Date: 10 Jul 89 22:27:24 GMT
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