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- From: peterm@maths.grace.cri.nz (Peter McGavin)
- Subject: Re: Amiga doesn`t need Pl
- Message-ID: <PETERM.96Feb29104046@tui.maths.irl.cri.nz>
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 21:40:46 GMT
- Distribution: world
- References: <john.hendrikx.4hkw@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Industrial Research Ltd
- In-reply-to: john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl's message of Tue, 27 Feb 96
- 12:14:59 GMT+1
-
- john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx) writes:
- >Add '1 MB Agnus required' to this list (yet another hardware specific
- >optimisation C2P needs to take into account).
-
- Blitter C2P can be written for any Agnus, but pre-1MB Agnus requires
- several blits per pass, hence more overheads and slower. I agree it's
- a hassle to optimise for all configs.
-
- >In a message of 25 Feb 96 Peter McGavin wrote to All:
- > PM> Minor point, perhaps, but I now believe it _is_ possible to blit a
- > PM> smaller part of the whole screen (horizontally) with C2P.
- >
- >This final blitter pass, would this be an additional blitter-pass 'normally'
- >not needed? If so it would be possible. Otherwise I think it isn't possible
- >as the Destination modulo MUST be zero (remember that only 1 word is copied
- >before each modulo is updated -- the BlitterWindow is after all only 1 word
- >wide, but VERY high, which is what makes the BlitterC2P trick work in the first
- >place).
-
- Whoops, I think you are right after all. To do it in the final
- (usually 4th) blitter pass would require a blit for every scanline.
- --
- Peter McGavin. (p.mcgavin@irl.cri.nz)
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