On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:40:09PM -0700, Martin DeMello wrote: > Did a quick check, my crossword app is still slow > (http://zem.novylen.net/ruby/xword.rb). The specific bit that is slow > is the moving of the red rectangle outline over the board, so I'm > guessing that either my code is doing something very wrong, or that > it's triggering some image rendering and deletion issue.
objects are piling up. one answer to speeding this app up is: * take `renumber` out of the separate threads. * in `renumber` start off with a `clear`. really nice, i like it! _why
