I didn't know Compuserve killed messages after line 39, anyway to continue
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You did not mention the screen I/O. Do you think it has a significant impact
on speed? I noticed that Norton Utilities Disk Test from version 3.0 to 4.0
ran much faster after they went from displaying every cluster number to every
100 or so. The speed improvements might also have come from other
improvements, however. Thanks, Leif
Leif – No, I doubt that the screen I/O ("processing vector nnn") has much
bearing on the speed of a PLOT or PRPLOT, but we'll kick that around. (It's
funny — I remember a user group newsletter suggesting that the difference
between an 8-bit CPU and a 16-bit CPU could be seen by the fact that AutoCAD
processed 16 vectors at a time during a plot. I wonder how they'd explain
the "processing hidden line" messages, which report every 25 lines.)
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