Useful test, Lex. Thanks. Found this when I checked bit depths. - James
Clark

Pentium 200, Win95, Permedia 2

[ Display forceToScreen: (1 at 1 extent: Display extent) ] timeToRun

32 bit:  59 60 59 59
16 bit:  173 171 170 173
8 bit:  50 52 51 51 
4 bit:  25 25 26 24
1 bit:  52 49 50 50


"Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent)" wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lex Spoon [SMTP:lex at cc.gatech.edu]
> >       [ Display forceToScreen: (1 at 1 extent: Display extent) ] timeToRun
> >
> > On my computer (Linux, K6-3/333, TNT2-Ultra), this takes over 100
> > milliseconds.
> >
> On my "experienced" 133 MHz Pentium this takes about 135 msecs.  Could be
> more a matter of bus speed than CPU clock rate.
> Bob Jarvis
> Compuware @ Timken