[racket] Facing some flickering problems

Right. But that is probably not happening in your case, unless you are
creating the bitmaps over and over.

Robby

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Mathew Kurian <bluejamesbond at gmail.com> wrote:
> So in terms of garbage collection...the deletion of those arrays are the
> only part.
>
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Mathew Kurian <bluejamesbond at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > If someone has a bit of spare time, can he/she explain how these images
>> > are
>> > loaded (time, allocation, garbage collection, etc) and then reproduced
>> > again
>> > during the redraws, it would be extremely useful.
>>
>> That particular aspect of the system is unlikely to be able to be
>> improved (altho there may be some windows-specific strangeness I
>> suppose; if you try on a mac and see the same behavior that would
>> confirm my opinion).
>>
>> Instead, the question will be how to avoid doing the drawing that often.
>>
>> But to answer your question, the images are loaded by reading the
>> file, interpreting the data stored there and creating a bitmap% object
>> that records an flat array of the colors. Then, during drawing that
>> data is (efficiently) copied onto the screen.
>>
>> Robby
>
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