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 On Saturday November 16 1996, Jerry Schwartz said to andrew clarke:

 JS> On Nov 12 17:42 96, andrew clarke of 3:635/728.4{at}fidonet wrote to
 JS> Jerry Schwartz:

 JS> I, too, tried it under Win95 and found that the screen painting was
 JS> incredibly slow.  I don't know why this is so, but I don't have many
 JS> Win32 console mode applications to compare it to.  Bink/32 paints
 JS> much
 JS> more quickly, for example.

 JS> You seem to contradict yourself somewhat there.  

 JS> ? I said not many, which is true, and gave a single example.

 JS> Yes, screen drawing in the NT ports, at least under Win95, is slower
 JS> than  its DOS and OS/2 counterparts.  This is mostly due to the
 JS> slowness of the  Win95 console subsystem :-(, and partly due to lack
 JS> of much optimisation on  my part.  I may optimise the screen routines
 JS> (especially those in WIN.C,  the main bottleneck) further, if I have
 JS> time.

 JS> I can't comment on the Win95 console subsystem itself, beyond
 JS> observing that native DOS applications (including Msged) do fine.  One
 JS> would hope that native Win32 I/O would be faster, but perhaps not.

 JS> Jerry Schwartz
 JS> @EOT:

Andrew Clarke

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