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- From: Hσvard Pedersen <havardp@mail.stud.ingok.hitos.no>
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- Subject: Re: These technical terms...
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:52:20 -0700
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- Patrick Sheffield wrote:
- > Why? What special advantage does chunky architecture give for this application?
- > (and spare me the explanation of planar/chunky architecture, please).
-
- Hmm... I'll try to make it clearer to you: Changing the color of a pixel in
- chunky bitmaps takes only one (1) byte-write, while on a planar bitmap it
- takes eight (8) byte-writes.
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