Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 12-Jan-01, you wrote:
> layouting is indeed much faster. it is hust the rendering which takes
> long. the last alpha which did not have this problem here was the first alpha
> with the new layouter (3.3.23?)
>
> :-(
> what may be wrong here?
Strangely enough, I was discussing this with Olli last night. We did a few
tests, and I must admit that it's a purely psychological effect of how the
display is drawn to the screen.
The way I understand it is that the old method (Voayager 3.2) used to
batch up the same drawing operations and perform them at the same
time. So *all* the table backgrounds would be filled with colour, then
*all* background images, then *all* text content in those table cells.
Now, everything on the page is an object, which you just tell to "draw"
itself, and essentially each and every object fills it's own background,
draws it's own image, and renders it's own text, then lets the next object
in the list perform the same.
This, in tandem with the way the new layouter regenerates damaged
parts of the page, makes the entire process LOOK a little slower.
Unless you care to time the rendering between versions (I couldn't find
a way, and it wasn't long enough to use a digital watch..) then I
would have to say that it's just your eyes deceiving you.
Also, bear in mind that the rendering engine in the beta is far from
fully optimised, and isn't compiled with any optimisation turned on
(If I recall) so you may just be getting the effects of that.
The official, proper, release compiles of Voyager should be noticably
faster than anything previous. As it is, I'd say Voyager is just a tiny
bit snappier than IE running on the box behind me, if only by the
virtue that it strives to display more, and display sooner, than IE
does (watch IE load Amiga-news.de :)
Thanks
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Matt Sealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Website http://www.kittycat.co.uk
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