In article <45BECE89.9060602@thuntek.net>, "Lee H. Skinner" <skinner@thuntek.net> writes:
What's your general impression of beta 3, Lee?
It looks pretty good now, I just wish it would execute a lot faster. It seems to be a couple of magnitudes slower than DOS. :-)
The speed issue is likely to be there for some time, probably until the application architecture is overhauled. Maybe Paul would like to try optimizing some of the display code? Its coded for "simplest thing that could possibly work" right now, not for speed. If you were coding a Win32 fractal plotter for speed from scratch, you would never do it this way! You would do it the way XaoS does things. However, we are getting to keep all the fractal type code this way, so its a trade-off. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>