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In article <25639@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:


>Color quickdraw: is heavily tuned. I doubt you'll be able to do much
>better. In addition, if you  write directly to the screen memory, your
>programs will break with some hardware that may exist in the future that
>runs the display in a not-normally accessible part of the memory map.

	I beg to differ slightly here. Color QuickDraw was slow enough
in 8-bit deep mode to prompt Andy Hertzfeld to rewrite most of the time
consuming loops (in pattern fills and CopyBits, for instance),
resulting (in some routines) in speeds approaching 300% of the original
loops. I believe that one ColorQuickDraw patch resulted in something
like a 700%-1000% speed increase.

	This was originally released as an Init, called "QuickerGraf".
Granted, Apple has built this patch right into the System release 6.0.
However, I was greatly disappointed in the display speed of my ][ in
8-bit mode. Luckily, since QuickerGraf patched some of the frequently
called traps, I was quite satisfied after installing the Init.

-Rob

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