Re: [AD] 4.3 display update methods

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On Monday 24 July 2006 22:38, Robert Ohannessian wrote:
> Why can't Allegro implement the dirty rectangle part?

It would have to duplicate everything that's drawn to the screen on a memory 
bitmap (not all drivers preserve video bitmaps). Not only that, but since 
acceleration is going to be a main focus, Allegro would have to end up doing 
things like bilinear interpolation, alpha blending, anti-aliasing, etc, in 
software. I don't think the speed impact would be worth it.




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