imagedata - why is it so slow ?

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Tue Feb 1 00:22:30 EST 2005


On Jan 31, 2005, at 12:53 PM, jbv wrote:

> I am working on an old stack (built with
> MC 2.4.1) in which I make extensive use
> of commands such as :
> set imagedata of img 1 to imagedata of img 2
>
> most of my images are 1024 x 768.

I tried to run a timing test on my OS X system using 1024 X 768 images 
I scribbled in:

on mouseUp
   put the long seconds into a
   get the imageData of image "A"
   put the long seconds into b
   set the imageData of image "B" to it
   put the long seconds into c
   put (b-a) && (c-b)
end mouseUp
==>
0.082148 0.370726

on mouseUp
   put the long seconds into a
   get the text of image "A"
   put the long seconds into b
   set the text of image "B" to it
   put the long seconds into c
   put (b-a) && (c-b)
end mouseUp
==>
0.000027 0.085191

I don't know how much I'd trust the first one.  For some reason it 
didn't work.  It made no change to the destination image.

Dar

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