Re: [pygame] Debug printouts - faster to screen or file?

[Paul Sidorsky <paulsid@shaw.ca>]

Pete Shinners wrote:

> i assume sending this to a file would be faster, since it wouldn't
> require any graphics output to the screen. lots of printing statements
> do have an impact on performance. i'm how much is gained by sending it
> to a file instead.

I think the screen will be faster.  The screen is still memory even
though it's a few layers out from the CPU.  The slowest memory is still
a few hundred times faster than the fastest hard drive.  Caching will
mitigate this somewhat but if you've got a lot of prints eventually
they'll have to be physically written to disk and then your program will
stop dead for a second.

Hmmm, maybe setup a RAMdrive?  Best of both worlds...

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