RE: [AD] No more video/system bitmaps

["Robert Ohannessian" <ROhannessian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

s/option/opinion/

I need to stop relying on auto-correction for my emails.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: alleg-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:alleg-
> developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert
Ohannessian
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 12:17 PM
> To: alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [AD] No more video/system bitmaps
> 
> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Elias Pschernig
> >
> >
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