Date   : Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:05:08 +0000
From   : Andy Armstrong <andy@...>
Subject: Re: Warning: Sad case on list!

On 9 Mar 2006, at 10:38, John Kortink wrote:
> The depth of that FIFO won't matter too much, probably.
> The ARM side will be waiting for 'slomo' to draw things
> most of the time anyway. Saving a few cycles just on
> getting the VDU bytes through won't make that much of
> a difference.

If you time how long it takes /just/ to draw things and how long it  
takes /just/ to calculate things then - given a big enough FIFO the  
smaller of those two times is the fastest you can get. If it's  
currently slower than that then a sufficiently large FIFO will speed  
it up :)

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Andy Armstrong, hexten.net