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- From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Hardware/Amiga 1200.
- References: <2097@lysator.liu.se>
- Message-ID: <paulk.2qar@terapin.com>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 10:34:25 PST
- Organization: BBS
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- > Yes, bitplanes were great when introduced in 1984, they saved
- > memory, but were VERY slow.
-
- Not so. They're actually faster for many operations, just BECAUSE
- less memory is involved. Blitting rectangles, for instance, can be
- faster with planes than with chunks because fewer total words of
- memory need to be accessed. With bitplanes, using fewer colors
- translates directly into higher speed. With chunky display, a 2
- color picture is as slow as a 256 color one.
-
- > That is, normal PC graphics cards is at least 15 times faster than
- > amiga graphics when running on same clock speed.
-
- > This is when doing a ReadPixel(), WritePixel() that is the most
- > elementary operations to be performed on a raster display.
-
- This is *ONLY* when doing ReadPixel and WritePixel. You have picked
- the one operation where bitplanes are weakest and byte chunks are
- strongest. Don't generalize from that to more complex operations.
-