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From: cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: (Video) Hardware Idiots ?
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.065629.21255@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 10 Jun 91 06:56:29 GMT
References: <1991Jun8.191231 <1991Jun9.0 <1991Jun9.060440.29078@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: James Cook University of North Queensland
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In article <1991Jun9.060440.29078@leland.Stanford.EDU> bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes:
>DON'T, don't EVER think that the blitter drags the system down.

On the speed of the 030 vs the blitter.  A student here was using
the blitter to copy screens around constantly for his graphics project
on his Amiga 3000 and it was going a bit slow.

I told him to try using CopyMemQuick and he got a 75% increase in
speed.

Nough said!

>Dave Hopper      |MUYOM!/// Anthro Creep | NeXT Campus Consultant at Stanford
>                 | __  ///    .   .      | Smackintosh/UNIX Consultant - AIR
>bard@jessica.    | \\\///    Ia! Ia!     | Independent Amiga Developer
>   Stanford.EDU  |  \XX/ Shub-Niggurath! | & (Mosh) Pit Fiend from Acheron


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Colin Adams                                  
Computer Science Department                     James Cook University 
Internet : cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au               North Queensland
'And on the eighth day, God created Manchester'