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From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: (Video) Hardware Idiots ?
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Date: 11 Jun 91 04:34:13 GMT
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From article <1991Jun10.065629.21255@marlin.jcu.edu.au>, by cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams):
> 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.

Yes, but that uses the main processor.  Now if he's blitting that
stuff around, and doing calculations, then the system benefits from
using the blitter and the main processor concurrently.

> Nough said!

Quite.

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