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On Sunday 22 January 2006 21:03, George Foot wrote:
> On the ARM architecture (GP2X), memcpy is about a million times faster
> than Allegro's normal blit (ok, maybe only about 2 times faster...).
> This is for screen-to-screen blitting, which is just a normal linear
> bitmap but in uncached memory, and accessed through mmapping.
It seems that on the Mac, the memcpy version is also noticably faster
[http://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/562923#target]. So as far as I can
see that brings the score to `some systems benefit a lot' and `some
systems don't care at all.'
Anyone opposed to applying (a cleaned up version of) the patch?
Evert