internal time.sleep(0.003) hacks are required but limit speed

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internal time.sleep(0.003) hacks are required but limit speed

Closed this issue 5 years ago · 5 comments

Wanting to speed it up before speed and turtle hiding are implemented i noticed the time.sleep(0.003) calls in the code and figured I'd start there as a quick hack.

Removing those "does" speed it up. It also messes up the drawing with only a fraction of pixels making it to the display (on a pygamer under circuitpython 4.1.0beta1). There appears to be a displayio related race condition those sleeps are working around?

Answer 1 · 2019-06-30T23:44:19.000Z

yep, at this time we only redraw what the sprite moves over, if its too fast, we dont catch that. we'll add bitmap-change-draws at some point but it isnt supported yet, so this works instead :)

Answer 2 · 2019-07-01T20:34:36.000Z

This hack can go away once adafruit/circuitpython#1981 is fixed.

Answer 3 · 2019-09-30T21:10:28.000Z

@tannewt It looks adafruit/circuitpython#1981 has been fixed. Can this issue be closed?

Answer 4 · 2019-09-30T21:11:56.000Z

would be lovely if someone could test and do a PR for it, dont close until that's done :)

Answer 5 · 2019-10-01T18:20:13.000Z

Right, we still need the sleeps removed from this library.