Re: VMs: For this MONKEY: Help, pointers, etc. please:Unicode,TrueType fonts, kerning

[Mart Vabar <mesinik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Jacques Guy wrote:
> The first version of MONKEY ran on a 386/33MHz and
> I had to insert an idle loop to slow down the text
> generator so that it would not fill the screen
> faster than you could read. Even on my long dead

well, I agree, it was probably offtopic...
... but adding more criteria about how meaningful the text should look like
will IMO slow the generator down. Plus - it seems me, two tasks 
(a) to check a text for n qualities and
(b) to generate a text which has n qualities
are badly elliptic in favor of checking
and if n comes bigger, the difference is growing exponentially, this is why I 
remembered the quantum algorithms which can solve such things w/o the "dirty 
work". Sorry once more fore going offtopic.

> Kaypro II (Z80 running at 2MHz) it probably would

I wish I had one. My oldest is an Apricot PC from 1981

> have needed slowing down.

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