[squeak-dev] Re: quick handling of graphics files

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu Apr 15 06:39:01 UTC 2010


On 15.04.2010, at 06:47, Andreas Raab wrote:
> 
> On 4/14/2010 8:38 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
>> At Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:54:22 -0700,
>> Andreas Raab wrote:
>>> 
>>> I see your 30x improvement and raise you another ... 6x for a total of
>>> 200x speedup (from 10secs to 50 msecs). There! Take that! :-)
>> 
>>   Man!  Even the timestamps of these methods are the same.  How fast
>> can you type?! ^^;
> 
> Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. :-)

19:50 is lunchtime for you? That explains a lot ;) 

In any case, this is a nice example of how naive code works fine for years, but if you need speed, there are certainly ways to make it efficient (if less readable).

- Bert -

> (I update the comments before filing it out)
> 
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
> 
> 






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