From: ovek AT arcticnet DOT no (Ove Kaaven)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Text Routines in DJGPP
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 07:58:41 GMT
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Brian Hogg <bhogg AT worldchat DOT com> wrote:

>Anyone familiar with QBASIC and PowerBASIC knows that the routines are
>extremely fast, you could fill the screen up with text chars one by one
>and you wouldn't tell.  Functions like cprintf() are too slow and
>maybe it's something I'm doing but it should be optimized... how big
>of a difference does the -O2 -O3 -O make to these routines?

cprintf() has to parse its input with sprintf() for all those %
formats etc, so naturally it's not too fast in filling up the screen.
Try cputs(), putch(), ScreenPutString(), etc instead.
"info libc func conio" should provide what you need.