At 12:03 AM +0100 14-03-00, Fitzpatrick, Joe wrote:
>If you could afford the memory, it would probably make a lot of sense to
>keep a shadow of the table in a different color space (ex. HSV). You
>could then basically use the same loop for grayscale and RGB. Better
>yet, you could hash the HSV values and make the test for matches a lot
>faster as well.
Those are good points. However, memory is tight on the Palm. Most
PostScript printers have more memory than a Palm device, after all! So we
picked the current algorithm because it's fast (enough), cheap (enough),
and good (enough).
--Bob
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