minor review of Tim Senecal's Carbon viewer

[Tim Senecal]

Jonathan, Dair,

I am not really sure what exactly is going on speedwize with my viewer.

on my g4 cube at home, and my g4 at work, I am able to connect and use my
Sparc20 at basically realtime over a 10bt network (when using rre
encoding).  On the otherhand, when I connect to a 600mhz Alpha box running
windowsNT, it FEELS slower than a 386 25.  I am assuming it is because, for
expediancy, i have my client connect with motorolla format data.  this, I
am assuming, is causing the server to spend vast amounts of time converting
16bit pixels from Intel to Motorolla format.  I am deciding whether or not
I will do something about that.  I would really like to know what servers
people are primarily using...  if enough are using the windows server i
will check it out.

as to what I am using for my tcp stack, all versions, up to and including
the carbon version have been OpenTransport, using as low a level as I can
get away with, ie, i am using direct calls to OTConnect, OTCountDataBytes,
OTsnd, and OTrcv.  there is no threading, all calls to OTCountDataBytes are
inside my main loop, and treated with the same level of importance as mouse
events and keyboard events.

thanks for the input, and I hope we can think of ways to optimize this
little hack.

tim

At 10:24 AM 10/30/2000 +0000, you wrote:
>Jonathan Morton wrote:
>
>>and Purple Shark was previously criticised for being slow!
>
>Indeed. :-)
>
>Tim, I couldn't see the source to your viewer on your website
>anywhere: but the main reason my viewer is slow is that I'm going
>through the PP networking classes (so this may be what's going on with
>yours).
>
>I'm currently Carbonizing my viewer (and fixing a bunch of bugs), and
>am thinking about switching over to sockets to see if that'll help
>(one of the main reasons the original ORL viewer is nice and fast is
>that the networking code is very streamlined).
>
>
>-dair
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