Re: delay 1 millisecond in Panther
Re: delay 1 millisecond in Panther
- Subject: Re: delay 1 millisecond in Panther
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 15:54:40 -0500
Generally no, there will not be a difference in the time it takes to
display.
Yes, internally a computer does take a bit more processing power to
scale a complicated font than a simple one but there is practically no
chance that the difference would be perceptible to a user. In practice
you can treat each character as taking the same amount of time to
display - the number of pixels or how complicated the font is will
really not matter at all. Pretty much even a page full of "." verses a
page full of Chinese symbols will show an imperceptible difference in
rendering time.
- Ken.
On Feb 14, 2004, at 12:25 PM, Bill wrote:
Thanks Chris, Emmanuel, Lachlan, Timothy & Deivy :)
Your information is valuable and extremely helpful.
Currently I'm testing PsyScript and Smile, prior to recommendation.
Well, may I ask some silly questions here:
To display a glyph, the point "." has the fewest pixels to change
color, would it display faster than other characters, e.g. "W"?
Non-ASCII characters like Traditional Chinese, their glyphs are
complicated, are they the slowest to display (more pixels to change
color)?
For the same character e.g. "A", will different fonts have different
time to display?
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