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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Scrolling bitmaps (help needed)
Message-ID: <8803021808.AA24059@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 2 Mar 88 18:08:29 GMT
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>    RethinkDisplay()? Oh jeez, slow yes.  Drawing into screens? Oh
>    jeez, slow yes.  LoadView()? Oh, fast yes.  Not intuition
	
	A screen's rastport does not have a layer associated with it and
thus drawing in it (Move/Draw/etc....) is much faster than drawing in a 
window.  Not having a layer means you must ensure your calls do not contain
any out of bound arguments.

					-Matt