Re: Performance: Drawing hundreds of short text strings
Re: Performance: Drawing hundreds of short text strings
- Subject: Re: Performance: Drawing hundreds of short text strings
- From: Sherm Pendley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:04:25 -0500
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Joar Wingfors <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On 20 dec 2010, at 01.22, Mark Coniglio wrote:
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>> My application needs to draw hundreds of short text strings into an NSView. After reviewing the Cocoa documentation on drawing text, I am left unsure as to how to do this with the highest level of efficiency.
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> Don't optimize in the dark! Implement something in the most straight forward way you can imagine, and then measure the performance. If you find that it doesn't perform well enough, use your measurements to guide you to a better implementation. I don't think that we have enough information yet to provide really good suggestions.
Seconded. The NSString "convenience" methods are the easiest, most
straightforward way, so I'd try those first. If and only if they
didn't perform well enough, then I'd start looking for a
better-performing alternative.
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