So, my intent here was to simulate the behavior of a planned array of LED light circuits. Simply, the idea was that each one would occasionally randomly decide to change its color to a random RGB value. This would then propogate a 'front' of sorts that could potentially interact with other fronts in strange and interesting ways. This basically works. The problem is that it seems kind of slow. This is a result, no doubt of my only burgeoning understanding of SDL and the Perl bindings. As you can probably see, it's based off of the game of life example in that it uses draw_rect to make a grid of objects across an SDLx::App surface. Basically it iterates over a 2D array of datastructures representing each element and renders it.
Is there a better/faster way to be rendering this? Should I be
blitting? What aspects could be slowing it down significantly? A
cursory examination with NYTProf revealed that, unsurprisingly, a lot
of time is being spent in draw_rect, though, interestingly, the
highest amount of time is in its call to
SDLx::Validate::_color_arrayref. Does this mean using an approach
like this:
unpack ('I', pack ('C*', int rand...
to color randomization and comparison would be better, or would
validation still take up a sizable amount of time?
I'm still learning and trying to piece together the right way to do
things from disparate examples, but it's a little difficult, so I
thought I'd ask here. Please feel free to comment / criticize at
length.
-A
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