I have two questions 1. Is making a for loop as fast as using memset for putting memory into certain addresses? 2. Where can I start to learn to program games fro windows, if I have no experience with direct x or direct draw?

quote: Original post by OoMMMoO
1. Is making a for loop as fast as using memset for putting memory into certain addresses?

Depends how you write it. It could be faster, slower, or the same. Memset is using a loop internally.

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2. Where can I start to learn to program games fro windows, if I have no experience with direct x or direct draw?

There''s lots of tutorials on the net, lots of samples with the SDK, and some good books around (Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus is a fairly decent one).

aig

memset is often written in very optimized assembly and is very fast (faster than a for loop you could write)

but if you are only filling a few bytes, the overhead of using memset might not be worth it

for any sizeable memory blocks, use the memory functions... memset or memcpy..


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