On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
> : On the down side it did take a little long for it to load, try 10 min!
> : So if it is to be used the code has to be somewhat speeded up. I did not try
> : to move any windows because I did not have a mouse pluged in and it would
> : have taken too long.
>
> Uh-oh. Scratch the above comment. You mean that it took
> 10 minutes to *draw* the screen! (laughing in background, peers looking
> at me very strangely...) Well, we definitely need that HERC_drawhline
> to be implemented, because now it calls HERC_drawpixel for *every* pixel
> on the screen, all 252,000 of them. I can take a hack at rewriting that,
> but It'd be nice if someone with a card did it. The file is
>mwin/src/drivers/scr_herc.c.
>
Ok. I'll do it, since I already have code doing the task "optimally",
(how can one be sure anything is done optimally?)
if I understand it correctly. (I am not the brain behind the algorithm.)
(Guess I'll have to put that Herc. card in a machine then... huhm...)
Regards,
Jakob Eriksson
