Display speed on large monitor

ryan daum opiate at saturn5.com
Sun Dec 19 19:46:01 UTC 1999


I am using Squeak 2.6 on the Win32 VM on Windows 98 on a P2-266 with an
ImageAccel 2 card on a 20" 256-grayscale monitor.  The card can only
operate in one of two modes: 640x480 or 1600x1280.  Rendering speed in
Squeak is an order of magnitude slower than rendering speeds in any
Windows applications, and makes it pretty much unusable for me.  I like
the way Squeak looks in grayscale, and having all the extra working space,
but I can't make it behave at a reasonable speed.  I tried reduce colour
bit depth to 8, 4, or 1, but this didn't improve behaviour that much. 

Are there newer additions to the BitBlt code for Squeak that would improve
this?  Any support for hardware graphics acceleration?  I'd like to know..

Thanks,
	Ryan Daum

---
"Pleasure in itself is not bad but good                    ryan at techno.ca
contrariwise, pain in itself is bad."                           Ryan Daum
Spinoza, "The Ethics"                          http://saturn5.com/~opiate





More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list