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Re: Why are iTools so slow? [message #41116 is a reply to message #41109]

Thu, 30 September 2004 17:34

Mark Hadfield
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Registered: May 1995

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David Fanning wrote:
> Marshall Perrin writes:
>
>
>> On my 1.25 GHz 15" Powerbook, it's not nearly that slow.
>> Both isurface and fsc_surface redraw many times per second and
>> are very usable. fsc_surface does feel a bit smoother and faster,
>> but it's more like a factor of 2-3. Certainly not a factor of 20!
>
>
> Could this be a hardware/software issue? My iTool image is
> slower, but not unusable, certainly.

You mean a hardware/software *renderer* issue. Yes. I changed the
default object graphics renderer in File/Preferences from Hardware to
Software, restarted IDL and, voila, the iSurface display is much faster.

For the record, I have a Pentium 4 2.67 GHz machine running Windows 2000
with an ASUS display adapater using a GeForce4 MX 440 graphics processor
with 64 MiB RAM. I "upgraded" to this adapter shortly after I got the
machine and was disappointed with the lack of any improvement in Object
Graphics speed.

I will have a look in the iTools code at the keywords it uses when it
creates and draws to its IDLgrWindow objects and report back if I found
out anything interesting.

--
Mark Hadfield "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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		Re: Why are iTools so slow? By: Rick Towler on Fri, 01 October 2004 10:25
		Re: Why are iTools so slow? By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 30 September 2004 17:34
		Re: Why are iTools so slow? By: David Fanning on Thu, 30 September 2004 12:33
		Re: Why are iTools so slow? By: mperrin+news on Thu, 30 September 2004 11:15
		Re: Why are iTools so slow? By: Randall Skelton on Sat, 02 October 2004 11:08

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