So in terms of garbage collection...the deletion of those arrays are the only part.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Mathew Kurian <bluejamesb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > If someone has a bit of spare time, can he/she explain how these images > are > > loaded (time, allocation, garbage collection, etc) and then reproduced > again > > during the redraws, it would be extremely useful. > > That particular aspect of the system is unlikely to be able to be > improved (altho there may be some windows-specific strangeness I > suppose; if you try on a mac and see the same behavior that would > confirm my opinion). > > Instead, the question will be how to avoid doing the drawing that often. > > But to answer your question, the images are loaded by reading the > file, interpreting the data stored there and creating a bitmap% object > that records an flat array of the colors. Then, during drawing that > data is (efficiently) copied onto the screen. > > Robby >
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