Re: time wasters for 9grid

> apologies for my knee-jerk reaction, andrey, my slow brain has only
> just realised that "ported by" means that you didn't write the code...
> 

it's fine -- matches closely my reactions while dealing with the original :)

> why is it that so much code out there uses macros (and "inline"
> functions) everywhere in places where a function call really wouldn't
> slow things down noticeably?

lots of this is, I presume, pure hackery for the heck of it.  some
comments in other xscreensaver programs indicate that these hacks used
to speed things up on old X displays.  I only rewrite them into
functions when they don't work.

andrey