Hello Paul,

On Mar 20 22:56, 1997, Paul Edwards of 3:711/934.9 wrote:

MS>> for (x = x1; x <= x2; x++)
MS>> {
MS>> putchar(' ');
MS>> }

MS>> can be replaced by

MS>> printf("%*s", 1+x2-x1, "");

MS>> What do you think?

PE> If you've seen a speed improvement because of it, yeah, good idea.

Well, it seems a little faster, but I could be imagining things. :)

PE> I expect the fastest thing would be an fwrite to stdout from a
PE> static buffer filled with spaces.

That sounds right.

PE> But actually I thought the whole ANSI thing would have been
PE> ditched on the Amiga in favour of some native screen-drawing
PE> routines?  Like whatever ncomm is likely to use?

Sure, that's what I've been investigating with GBText. You see,
there are quite a few different levels of text handling on the Amiga
& I still haven't determined / decided which is the best for MsgEd.

At the lowest level, there is the Text() function, which I use in
Scrolltext & Scrollword.  Next, there is direct access of the
console.device, which I use in GBText.  Next, there is opening CON:
as a stream, etc, etc.

Michael Stapleton of Graphic Bits
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