Re: [pygame] Re: SDL-ctypes progress

[Bob Ippolito <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 2, 2006, at 2:10 AM, Richard Jones wrote:

> On Friday 02 June 2006 08:41, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> > On Jun 2, 2006, at 1:36 AM, Richard Jones wrote:
> > > Python 2.5 also has speedy new struct code which may come in useful.
> >
> > Well, struct wouldn't be all that good for working with buffers full
> > of pixels; it doesn't do anything lazily.. unpacking creates tuples
> > full of stuff, rather than returning some kind of proxy object that
> > creates numbers on demand like numeric/numpy/ctypes.
>
> Hurm. Did any of your speedup work touch packing? I've made use of  
> packing in
> the past to set up OGL vertex buffers etc.

Yeah, packing is definitely faster than it was. There's also a new  
API for packing directly to a writable buffer (which Martin did).

-bob