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- From: cschneid@amiga.physik.unizh.ch (Christian Schneider)
- Subject: Re: Memory copy via blitter
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.145856.26691@rzu-news.unizh.ch>
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- Organization: ICU - University of Zurich, Dept. of Computer Science
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:58:56 GMT
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- Dave Plummer (plummer@hercules.cs.uregina.ca) wrote:
- : Could someone email a short example of how to copy 512 bytes within Chip
- : memory using the blitter? It's totally unrelated to graphics, but since
- : I want a fast way to copy 512 or 1024 bytes, I'd like to use the blitter,
- : but all the documentation I can find refers to BitMaps and such.
-
- I'd use CopyMemQuick() from exec... (Your data is long word aligned,
- isn't it?)
- CopyMemQuick is probably as fast as blitter for 512 or 1024 bytes on
- 68000 and certainly faster on A3000/A4000 ;-)
-
- - Chris
-
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