Hack too slow

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2 total messages Started by Steve Harpster Wed, 03 Apr 1985 14:40

#393

Author: Steve Harpster
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1985 14:40

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Is the new version coming out any faster?  The I/O is SO SLOW that
it deters many people here from playing it.  Redrawing the map 
takes at least a minute (on a VAX 750 with a load average < 1).
Is is just us or does everyone have this problem?
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...ihnp4!tellab1!steve
Steve Harpster
Tellabs, Inc.

Re: Hack too slow

#404

Author: Andries Brouwer
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1985 14:06

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[You are lucky! Full moon tonight.]

In article <255@tellab3.UUCP> steve@tellab3.UUCP (& Harpster) writes:
>Is the new version coming out any faster?  The I/O is SO SLOW that
>it deters many people here from playing it.  Redrawing the map 
>takes at least a minute (on a VAX 750 with a load average < 1).
>Is is just us or does everyone have this problem?

Here I timed redrawing a full screen to 14 sec on a 1200Bd terminal
and to 55 sec on a 300Bd terminal so that it is not Hack but the
baudrate that determines the speed. Of course if your terminal has
no cm or no ce then things are much slower.
No, the new version is not faster - the I/O is unchanged, and the
program is much bigger, so that it will probably somewhat slower
on most machines.

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