On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Chris Young wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:22:00 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time), Jeffrey Lee wrote: > >> If you're worried about performance (even with palette-mapped output the >> code would still be doing a per-pixel lookup to map from the current Arc >> palette to the host palette) then I can easily produce a version of the >> code that's designed to work with palettised host displays. I haven't >> profiled the new display code yet, but I'm sure that such a mode would >> give an appreciable performance boost on ARM hosts as well. > > Might be a good idea, if it improves performance - that would be my > main concern in switching to 16bpp mode. Given the relative benefits > of the two, the ideal situation would be to support both and allow > switching between them (preferably during execution), which I > understand your new display code allows anyway?
Yes, that should be possible. I'll add a simple button combo to the RISC OS version so I can test it out. I've got a few different ideas on how to interface the code with the host, so I'll have a play around and see which one works best across all platforms. Cheers, - Jeffrey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev -- arcem-devel mailing list arcem-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/arcem-devel
