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From: cs178abu@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU (John Schultz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Window Clipping
Keywords: graphics, 3-d, clipping
Message-ID: <783@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 4 Feb 88 00:53:12 GMT
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In article <3258@cbmvax.UUCP> steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats) writes:
>In article <780@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU> cs178abu@sdcc8.ucsd.edu.UUCP (John Schultz) writes:
>>  Yes, drawing to a rastport is faster than drawing to a window.  (a
>>big time noticeable difference).
>>  John

>I think you meant to say that drawing into a screens RastPort is faster than
>drawing into a Windows RastPort.  This is true.  Screen RastPorts don't have
>any layer info attached so no clipping is performed.
>
>	Steve

  ...and drawing to your own View/ViewPort/RastPort is the fastest, but
non-intuition compatible (not directly).  The things we do for speed...

  John