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From: bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper)
Subject: Re: (Video) Hardware Idiots ?
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In article <1991Jun10.065629.21255@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams) writes:
>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!

Not quite.  For specialized gfx intensive operations, things will be
faster on the '030.  This much has been said before.  But the point is
that overall, CPU-intensive projects will go faster if gfx display is
downloaded to the blitter.

>>Dave Hopper      |MUYOM!/// Anthro Creep | NeXT Campus Consultant at Stanford

>Colin Adams                                  

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