Anyone with Turing 4.1 want to help me?

[NikG]

First off, all you mods can relax. I'm not asking for a copy of Turing 4.1.

I have some sample code (from my secret FP project) which runs awfully slow. I read somewhere on this site about how Turing 4.1 greatly increased the speed (and size) of applications. I was just wondering if anyone out there with Turing 4.1 was willing to run this sample code that I would send them and tell me how it runs.

It shouldn't take more than 10 minutes... If you are willing to help, pm me.

[[Gandalf]]

Sure, why not. Though I believe you are getting misinformed. Turing 4.1 doesn't improve the speed of anything (as far as I can tell). What it does do is allow for certain things which increase the overall speed of your program. For example, you are probably using bmps for your images (if you want transparency of any kind) which is slowing down your program a lot. If you were to switch those bmps to transparent gifs, as Turing 4.1 allows, your program would run multiple times faster. I've clocked it at at least 10 times faster in most cases.

[NikG]

I guess I misinterpreted this... (from http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=11555)

Hacker Dan wrote:

Tho it has been reported that it makes turing exe files much biger. That is probly not that bad consider speed increases of 50% to 500% coule be happening. Also GIF suprot yay!

Anyways, I guess there's no point then since I was hoping for a speed increase when I use, for example, a large loop...
I'll send my code to you if you're still willing to try it out...

[[Gandalf]]

Refer to my post above. It's no problem to test out your code.
"Speed increases of 50% to 500%" and more could be happening when you use GIF images as opposed to BMP images, or things like that. This is useful for graphical applications, not increasing the speed of calculations and execution time. A for loop which outputs the incremented value will run no faster on 4.1 than on 4.0.5.

[codemage]

It executes graphics code faster - in general.

The same program using JPEGs will run significantly faster in 4.1 than 4.0.x.

This only applies to graphics. General code shows no speed improvement.