RE: [AD] No more video/system bitmaps

["Robert Ohannessian" <ROhannessian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Frankly, my option is that the automatic management mode should be the
default mode. Users would have to do more work if they want to manually
manage them.

Chances are the Allegro drivers will know more about the performance
characteristics of the underlying platform than the game itself.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: alleg-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:alleg-
> developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Elias Pschernig
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 12:13 PM
> To: alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [AD] No more video/system bitmaps
> 
> On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 20:23 +0200, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> 
> > Well, I agree that I don't much like the idea of to much going on
behind
> > the user's back without his or her consent. I do think we can let
> Allegro
> > handle bitmap storage based on usage, but only if the user requests
it.
> In
> > other words, I think the user should manually call an
> > al_optimise_bitmaps(), say after calling al_flip_display() (or less
> often
> > if they so choose).
> > (off-topic: if we want to spell that as al_optimize_bitmaps()
perhaps
> > someone should keep a watchful eye on patches I may make for this).
> 
> Sure :) And for the API, I guess it is much more important to be
> consistent than for the docs.. so let's just decide to use US spelling
> for all API names.
> 
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> Elias Pschernig
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