Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
> Well I don't think memory is of any concern for people with hi-colour mode
> capabilities...
We've obviously come a long way. From "look at crappy Windows, needs
megabytes of ram whereas our system is so efficient and memory saving"
to "what does it matter whether a simple background colour needs 2MB
of ram".
> I don't think there are users of QPC2 and Qx0 without at least 16
> Megs of RAM...
I usually run QPC set to 6MB ram. The slaving problem still exists.
> As for compression of SCR, I am currently working on a modified variable
> RLE model (3 bytes or 4 bytes long) with the following specs:
I think Jerome's idea of a compression of save areas within the OS is
quite a good one ("Background colour? No problem, 4 RLE encoded bytes
instead of 2MB"). But it's difficult to implement (hardly any random
access anymore).
If I had more time I think I'd try it nonetheless.
> However it's insanely slow with Basic (Peculiar thing here... VB 6.0
> compiled running Atop a 1GHz Athlon is slower compression-wise than a plain
> QL working with Peeks and Pokes in Memory compiled with Turbo - The QL
> version is at least twice as fast!!! Yep the QL always had kick-a## number
> crunching capabilities).
Sorry, I don't really like VB but this just proves that you're a
better QL than PC programmer ;-)
Marcel
