Does the GUI affect performance?

btrboyev · Post by **btrboyev** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 7:05 pm

I've noticed that the GUI is pretty complicated...anyways when you return from a game, I've noticed the GUI and music never stop running during gameplay. Listen to your mp3 file..go to a game and come back and the song will be further along. I doubt this is any issue but maybe

Also this emu displays the screen in a different manner than nesterdc does, would this cause a slight hit in performance?

rapigator · Post by **rapigator** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 7:09 pm

btrboyev wrote: Listen to your mp3 file..go to a game and come back and the song will be further along. I doubt this is any issue but maybe

ive noticed this too, and that could be causing games to slow down

btrboyev · Post by **btrboyev** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 2:43 am

*bump*
I'm thinking the mp3 playback is hurting performance.

Techies please post opinions

JuddWack · Post by **JuddWack** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 9:15 am

I dunno if this is true, but Im pretty sure everyone will agree with me on this: I will go without a fancy menu, and hidden games, and menu music for even just a small speed performance...

jworg · Post by **jworg** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 11:24 am

I don't think Peter Bortas and Marcus Comstedt would like to spend all their time profiling assembler code. It is after all not their job to make DreamSNES, but a hobby.

Leif Stensson · Post by **Leif Stensson** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 11:23 pm

There is no need to profile the assembled code to sort out this issue. When the SNES emulator runs, it's essentially stuck in a loop that calls S9xMainLoop over and over again, with marginal intervention by some maintenance functions. Neither S9xMainLoop nor the maintenance functions call the menu GUI, the hidden games or the MPEG player, so they have no effect on the emulation speed.

jworg · Post by **jworg** » Thu Feb 21, 2002 11:47 am

I know that. What I meant was that the reason for fancy screensavers and MP3 players is to have fun while developing. It is not likely that they are going to drop "fun" stuff in trade for optimizations.