On 2009-11-30, at 2:42 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>
> On Nov 29, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Arturo Zambrano wrote:
>
>> Ok, I tried without compiz and both Pharo and X11 using 16 bpp: It works
>> better (still slow if compared to VW). For example: when pressing right
>> button on the world, it takes almost a second for the popup menu to show
>> up. Is that normal?
>
> normally not
>
>> I didn't used it in another platform, I will try to give it a try under
>> Windows to see if speed is the same.
>
> Thanks
Please open a transcript and do
10 timesRepeat: [Transcript show: 1 tinyBenchmarks printString;cr]
report the numbers, also how many ghz your machine CPU is.
>>
>> Is there a particular reason for Pharo not supporting 24bpp?
>
> time and money.
>
>> I think all nvidia drivers for linux works up to 24bpp, but this depth is
>> not listed
>> in Pharo (using 16 bits looks a bit ugly)
>
>
> normally displayScreen only supports ... 8, 16 or 32 bits
I think 24 bpp means 32bit words 8 bits R 8 bits G 8 bits B and 8 bits ignored
which would be Alpha.
Try doing
Transcript cr;show:
[Display fillWhite. 1 to: 4 do: [:i | Pen new color: i; turn: 90*i;
dragon: 14] ] timeToRun.
Display restore.
report back how big the number is printed to the transcript
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