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28 Jul 2024 14:26:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Single BMP, perhaps you all misunderstood my question  
From: Remco de Korte
Date: 7 Sep 1999 19:48:22
Message: <37D5A568.4220BC2D@xs4all.nl>
Lutz Kretzschmar wrote:
> 
> Hi Remco de Korte, you recently wrote in povray.windows:
> 
> > That is a reasonable explanation.
> > The way I think this will work the whole image will be loaded into memory with
> > one single statement and then it's not really relevant anymore though.
> If the image is vertical, blitting from it will be better because the
> bitmap is in contiguous memory, i.e. the CPU cache will do a much
> better job of getting data, it could make it quite a good deal faster.
> 
> - Lutz

That is interesting. Thank you for this information! Any idea how big the
difference is? Is it more then trivial?

Remco


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