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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Which would be faster?
- Date: 5 Jan 1996 22:12:02 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Miloslaw Smyk (smykm@felix.univ.szczecin.pl) wrote:
- : Juergen Rally Fischer wrote:
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- : > BTW on PAL 1280x400 laced is lots faster than 1280x512 laced (both PAL!).
-
- : The speed has nothing to do with PAL or not PAL, but with the amount of
- : pixel-data you have to transfer in one frame. In this example you have
- : the same frame rate (both are PAL), but less lines, thus less fetches
- : from CHIP-RAM per time unit.
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- The other explanation: in 1280 8bitplane the chip ram is maxed out.
- The only time the blitter or cpu can access chip is during 'hblank'
- and 'vblank'.
- The diference betwen 400 and 512 is big under those condition, that
- can cause a drastic difference of speed. on AGA 8bit or ECS 2bit
- PAL, the diference in speed betwen x400 and x512 is ~100% slower.
- You can try this: open a WB on ECS in 736x400 16 color... play around
- now open it in 736x480 (I supose NTSC). What a diference 80 lines make.
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- Stephan
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