Date   : Fri, 25 Jun 1993 15:29:14 +0100
From   : Mik Davis <davism@...>
Subject: Re: Unrolling loops & fast routines

>> If you have multiple screens and are DIMing lots of screen buffers,
>> allocating an extra 256 bytes each time is going to get expensive!
>
>If he's got multiple screens he only needs one dim, and so at worst loses
>255 bytes.

  No, I only have one buffer. I load the data from disc into the buffer then
transfer it to the screen afterwards

>
>My personal prefered way would be to lower HIMEM and allocate yourself the
>memory. That is guaranteed to be in the same place all the time, and be page
>aligned. Much more sensible.
>

  It works now. In this case I'm not too worried about wasting memory so the
extra RAM used by my method is fine

        Mik Davis at Aston University. E-Mail davism@...
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