[net.micro.mac] Quickdraw benchmarks

kdmoen@watcgl.UUCP (Doug Moen) (05/25/85)

I wanted to find out the fastest way to draw horizontal and vertical
lines in Quickdraw.  Here are some results:

I chose to compare 3 methods:
- CopyBits from a prepared bitmap containing the line
- PaintRect using a long, skinny rectangle
- MoveTo, LineTo

Vertical line 50 x 1 pixels:
  CopyBits    .250 ticks
  PaintRect   .168 ticks
  LineTo      .079 ticks

Horizontal line 1 x 50 pixels
  CopyBits    .084 ticks
  PaintRect   .073 ticks
  LineTo      .069 ticks