pyCard_turtleTimes

[Neil Hodgson]

Cousin Stanley:

>                                             AR                  AR
NO AR
>                                             Neil                Stan
Stan
>    ChaosScript2and3 ......  157  ............. 1306  ........ 18
>    hopalong ......................  554  .............   893  ........  46
>    madness ......................  482  .............  2771  ........  53

My results with auto-refresh off are 4, 10.3, and 11.4 so about 4 times
faster than your machine.

> and re-inforce my thoughts that I  STILL  need to go to the 'puter store
...

   I'd expect a cheap current computer to be 2-3 times faster than mine and
a good current computer 5 or 6 times faster.

> I don't consider these applications central to my efficiency,
> but perhaps a glimpse into the performance of the PythonCard samples
> and Python itself and am quite relieved that turning off the Auto-Refresh
> option made a  HUGE  difference ...

   I'd like to see a compromise between auto-refresh and no auto-refresh
with a refresh done every half second or 100 drawing operations so you could
see the developing picture but not cause the drawing to take much longer.
Had a quick look in the code but could not see how to do that.

> ...
> since  turtle-izing  is such a  SIMPLE  method for plotting and should be
> especially attractive to novice programmers ...

   I used to be fascinated by this sort of thing when I was starting out.

   Neil