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

[Paul Sidorsky <paulsid@shaw.ca>]

Michael Robin wrote:

> Each character is possibly captured via popen, clipped, translated,
> antialiased, masked, blitted... This ain't no 'load [screen], char' world
> any more -
> but for files, an 'A' is still a 1-byte write to a memory-buffered file.
> One big difference is if your screen output ever requires scrolling -
> that also soaks up a lot of CPU.

Oops, yeah, you're right.  I'm still stuck in my old DOS world.  :-)

(Putting the file on a RAMdrive is probably still a good idea though.)

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Paul Sidorsky                                          Calgary, Canada
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