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From: klee@gilroy.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Need bitmap vs image info
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Date: 19 Jun 89 20:13:49 GMT
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In article <1306@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu>, page@ferrari.ece.uiuc.edu (Ward C. Page) writes:
> Is there a way to speed up the image routines or are there better
> ways to handle bitmaps that I am missing.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

For may applications, the X11 pixmap facilities are quite a bit faster than the image facilities.  For some applications, they aren't.  Most of the difference comes from the fact that pixmaps are stored in the server, but images are stored in the c