Re: [glob2-devel] new gradient system

[MOA333]

Nuage wrote:

> Summary: improved gradient speed by 97%, which improves overall speed 
> by 5%.


i did some new tests:

  - first of all you should realy do somethink with the checksum.  i 
mean somethink to make the checksum at least 30 times faster.  I suggest 
100 times faster.  Why not making the checksum once every 30 secconds, i 
dont know what this does exacty but i dont think that playing 10 
secconds without checksum is bad, i can play for minutes witout checksum 
and the game is still working well.

 -  seccond, if i disable the checksum, i still have the gradian think 
that take more than 80% of resources and 110% of CPU on a 512*512 map;  
of course is better than 1000% of cpu and 99% of resources like before, 
but if you could just make it 10 or 20 times faster, maybe more, EVEN if 
the workers will stay more time before finding the right way;

 - third,  suppose that this two first problems get solved, do we realy 
nead to print so many frames on the screen?  what about printing once on 
the screen every 3 cycles. It will be the same for the eye, but it will 
speed up the game, because when i disable both checksums and gradient 
the glx is taking the most of the time, well, still resonable;

 - 4th,   on huge maps printing the map is taking almost as much as 
printing the screen with glx.   please, could you do somethink and print 
the map less often, like making a refresh of the map every 10 secconds 
or some other idea.

 I am sure that the point 3 will make the game faster for little 
computers on maps up to 128*128;
 The first and seccond point could make the 512*512 game realy fast;
  All 4 of this ill make the 512*512 and even maybe 1024*1024 maps fast 
even on less then 1 Ghz computers.

  Only to find a way to desactivate the checksums and to make the 
gradient 10 or 20 times faster


 Is there a hope?