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Subject: Re: Fast Backgound File Loads
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Date: 2 Jul 89 23:33:13 GMT
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    For a full screen file (1200 by 800 pixels) this call 
    takes at least 5 minutes to complete (30 seconds might be 
    acceptable).

    Do you know why any of these should be rejected out of hand or do you know
    of a really elegant solution?

Use The (MIT R3) Source, Luke?  I consed up a random 1200x1000 bitmap source
file, and it took about 8 seconds to read it on a VAXstation 3200 (calling
XmuReadBitmapDataFromFile, which is the same as the parsing part of
XReadBitmapFile).