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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: WritePixelArray8, huh?
Message-ID: <37450@cup.portal.com>
Date: 1 Jan 91 05:01:20 GMT
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smithwik@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (R. Michael Smithwick -- FSN)
in <1990Dec31.190730.4771@nas.nasa.gov> writes:

	Anyone know what the new 2.0 function WritePixelArray8() serves
	in life. Its man page is absolutely baffleing.

Having not seen the "man page", I can only guess ...

If you remember my demo of my USENIX Facesaver picture program on the Amiga
at FAUG last year, you'd remember how slow I commented the WritePixel()
routine is; Doug Merritt speeded it up by writing 8 bits at a time to the
bitplanes ... Facesaver picture picture display went from 32 seconds to less
than 1/4 second ... I suspect that's something along the lines of what the
new WritePixelArray8() "might" be doing.

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]