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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Why are bitmap save/restores so slo
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Date: 17 Sep 89 21:48:07 GMT
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mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu <110200003@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> :
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-There are extremely efficient ways of copying areas from region
-to another of video memory. And, to copy to or from ordinary memory,
-retaining the planar maps, is very fast indeed. So is drawing
-lines or circles or text in a fixed color. The programmer just has
-to understand how it works and choose an efficient way to do it.

Okay.  Any tips on how to do this?