>> Took 2 hours at 320x240 on my Amiga 1200 with a 20 MHz FPU.
> 
> Oh I was down to about a minute or two at 640x480 on my 12 MHz Acorn (no 
> FPU).  Limited zooming possibilities though.  Actually someone had 
> written a much more complicated version in assembler that got around the 
> accuracy limitations of 32-bit ints somehow and also ran faster than 
> mine...

Well, it was written in interpretted BASIC, what do you expect? ;-) 
[Also written very simply, with no evidence of any attempt at 
optimisation... And lots of configurable options which slow rendering 
down even if you don't use 'em.]

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

Post a reply to this message