[geeks] grr AT

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Wed Apr 17 16:27:10 CDT 2002


[ On Wednesday, April 17, 2002 at 15:12:58 (-0400), Joshua D Boyd wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] grr AT
>
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 02:12:29PM -0400, Michael Conlen wrote:
> 
> > You'd think *they* would do a good bitblt! :)
> 
> I'm sure their software bitblt is fine, but it would be pretty hard to get it
> as fast as it would be to let the video card do it for you.

Yeah, but the way Squeak is implemented means you can re-implement the
bitblt in hardware and just let your video card do it for you....  :-)

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