Re: [AD] Faster hsv_to_rgb()

[Robert Jr Ohannessian <rohannessian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

AE wrote:
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> One nice thing about 0.8 fixed-point numbers is that I can make a 64K
> multiply lookup table for all values from 00-FF (they're one byte each).


Are you sure this would speed-up things? Cache misses are far far more 
expensive than the latency for multiplies.


> Do you think Allegro has a need for seperate faster but less accurate
> RGB<->HSV functions that use a different paramater-space, or should it be up
> to users to add their own versions of these functions?

Perhaps best left as an add-on.


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