Hello everyone.
I don't know if anyone has noticed but there are some things that could
be reprogrammed in arachne and make it work much faster.
In particular, I believe that the routine that prints fonts to screen is
not optimized. Since I work in a 286 machine, many imperfections are
visible to me 'cause they are not covered by processor speed.
What I mean is that other graphics programs that use the same screen
resolution (like Windoze or DosShell in graphics mode) print characters
to screen really fast, only a bit slower than in text mode. But arachne
is really slow and most times I can see the text being printed slowly.
It would be a could idea to write an optimized WriteFontToScreen routine
since a lot of speed can be earned for two reasons:
i) It is one of the most often used routines in the arachne program
ii) The current routine used is REALLY slow and can be MUCH better.
Jimis
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