[racket] fruit flies

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Stephen Bloch <bloch at adelphi.edu> wrote:
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> On Sep 13, 2011, at 4:03 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
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>> That would be a bug (if an entire width*height bitmap were being
>> re-created and thrown away each time and the program was just creating
>> a few circles instead of creating a bitmap of that size).
>> ...
>> A 2htdp/image is just a tree where overlays (and things like that) are
>> interior nodes and leaf nodes are things like circles.
>
> Right, but at some point it gets rendered to the (presumably pixel-map) graphics device.  IIRC, this is done by a function named "render" that returns a bitmap, and the resulting bitmap is then drawn on the screen, which would indeed mean that an entire width*height bitmap was being re-created and thrown away each time.

It isn't "thrown away" in the sense that a new one is allocated and an
old one is garbage collected.

But yes, eventually the same set of pixels have to be computed and drawn.

Robby