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From: Tim O'Neil <goneil@chat.carleton.ca>
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Subject: Re: Messing with the primatives
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 17:51:53 -0400
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Developer Support wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The changes to olen/ilen are part of the optimisations to improve the
> speed of SortObject. What happens is that a count of similar primitives
> is produced so that instead of deciding on a primitive basis the routine
> can dispatch a group of 20 FT3's to be rendered more rapidly.
> 
> This has a side effect that a mixed TMD will actually render more
> efficently if the packets are 'sorted'
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Colin.

Thanks for the reply.  Just one more routine to bypass now :)

Tim