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On 2008-03-24, Peter Hull <peterhull90@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As I understand it, that code is for pulling the image from VRAM into
> main memory, so it can be modified and re-uploaded when the region is
> unlocked. So I'm not sure why things seem to work if it is skipped. Is
> it because the font bitmap is never modified while the glyphs are
> being grabbed?
Ah, how could I miss that. Can we somehow avoid that step in the usual case
when the copy in main memory is already up to date?
Peter