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28 Jul 2024 14:18:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Single BMP, perhaps you all misunderstood my question  
From: Lutz Kretzschmar
Date: 7 Sep 1999 10:17:24
Message: <37d51e8b.28741928@194.174.214.110>
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
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