...On the other hand, with these algorithms a lot of the trouble might be not spraying the grid to the screen, but converting from whatever nontrivial internal representation it's using. (Obviously Golly is not storing the whole grid as raw bits for something like the late-stage Metacatacryst; that would not be possible for any computer in existence.)
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Date: 2006-02-12 10:10 am (UTC)