Re: [pygame] Decrease in Performance

["Bob Ippolito" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/20/07, Bruce Coram <brucecoram@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm reposting this - my first attempt appeared to get lost.  Being a
> newbie I can not rule out incompetence!
>
> What might the reason be for a significant drop in performance for
> blitting objects to the screen using pygame versions 1.6 and 1.7, both
> with Python 2.4.4.  We blit two surfaces, each approximately 900  x 900
> pixels in size, consecutively to the screen.  Using pygame 1.6 this took
> about 0.016 seconds but in pygame 1.7 it took about 0.024 seconds.  Can
> anyone help?  I had thought that new versions improved performance not
> degraded it.  The code is identical in both cases.

I think SDL may have changed its default driver from dx5 to windib,
for compatibility reasons. Not all cards still support such an old
API. I doubt it's anything in pygame.

-bob