Interesting question.
I just ported moveit.py from the pygame examples directory, which is
basically a blit speed test. On my machine I get 2.93 ms / frame for
SDL-ctypes (341 FPS), and 2.52 ms / frame for pygame (396 FPS).
Alex.
Mark Heslep wrote:
> Alex -
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> Great work. Have you gotten any timing data/benchmarks for comparison
> between the ctypes wrapper and the original pygame?
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> Mark
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> Alex Holkner wrote:
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>> Hi all
>>
>> This release of SDL-ctypes is feature complete for SDL versions 1.2.1
>> through 1.2.11, and includes SDL_image, SDL_mixer and SDL_ttf, as
>> well as ports of all the test programs. You can download it and the
>> documentation from:
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>> http://www.pygame.org/ctypes
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>> The joystick functions are completely untested, since I don't have a
>> joystick. If anyone has a spare minute (and a joystick), I'd
>> appreciate someone running the "testjoystick.py" test and comparing
>> the results with "testjoystick" in the SDL distribution.
>>
>> So far I expect this to work only on Linux little-endian (Intel or
>> AMD) systems. Mac, Windows and big-endian support will be the next
>> focus.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alex.
>>
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