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> I don't think we need to vote on this :-) I did post a message on
> AD which outlined how Michael's truecolour -> 8bpp conversion code
> works. It's actually really simple. (And if someone wrotes an asm
> version of it, that'd be great! :-)
I think we should first evaluate the benefits asm could bring over pure C.
For example, for hi/truecolor conversion, the main benefit of hand-coded asm
versus GCC-produced asm is parallelization (SIMD), of course for MMX
routines but even for pure 386 ones.
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Eric Botcazou
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