[REBOL] Re: Multimedia quality (was) One disk OS + REBOL Re:(8)
From: kolla:nvg:ntnu:no at: 26-Aug-2000 3:38
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 [holger--rebol--com] wrote:
> What makes REBOL/View relatively slow on Amigas with the native graphics
> chipset is the necessary chunky-to-planar conversion. We are using
> optimized Assembler code for that, but it is still a bottleneck. On
> Amigas with graphics boards REBOL/View is reasonably fast (often
> faster than under Unix/X running on the same hardware).
But still dog slow, even on my [P3--650MHz] linux box I find it annoyingly
slow, and I often end up clicking on buttons twice, or more. On the Amiga
(060/PPC/CVPPC) dragging subwindows inside rebol windows is like running
a macemul in HAM on a lowend A1200, faster than X doesnt really say much
as X is per def a slow memory greedy dog, no matter what hardware ;)
-- kolla
