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From: jimf@SABER.COM
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Can some one help me with Image package
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Date: 22 Oct 90 17:34:07 GMT
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|The XPutPixel is not too bad to use as it is very smart about 8 and 1 bit
|images.  [...]  We have found the that slowness is tolerable knowing that
|an application will always work with any depth and bit-byte ordering.

If you're trying to be interactive it's *not* tolerable.  I get around
this by defining my own image format and slamming it into the XImage
structure.  The code that transforms into server-native format is much
more efficient than the PutPixel/GetPixel code so there's a big jump
in throughput.

jim frost
saber software
jimf@saber.com