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- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 94 12:49 BST-1
- From: ogal@cix.compulink.co.uk (Ofir Gal)
- Subject: Re: digest
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Message-Id: <memo.757844@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- warwick@cs.uq.oz.au said:
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- >Yikes! Be careful! On most graphics hardware, excluding std ST/TT stuff,
- >screen-to-screen blitting is MUCH faster than blitting from a bitmaps held
- >off-screen. Also, holding offscreen bitmaps gets extremely expensive as
- >the depth of the display increases. For example, a small 200x200 bitmap
- >is 120K on a 24bit display!
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- NVDI 2.5x includes off-screen blits. A separate free program called
- enhancer does the same. Ask Wilfried for exact details.
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- Bye,
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