Re: [Gimp-developer] RGB vs RGBA - why Add Alpha Channel?

[Nick Lamb]

On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 06:16:13PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>  COW is indeed a good thing. However I assume you address the mentioned
>  memory overhead with your answer and I'm not sure how you would avoid
>  it with copy-on-write.

You're completely right. It was a thinko on my part, I have been starting
at assoc/ non-assoc alpha channels for too long and forgotten that the
storage is inline and thus not amenable to COW. Sorry everyone.

Nick.
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