Re: [lazarus] Performance of 24bit bitmap in 32bit color display

2007-09-03 Thread Marc Weustink
Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote: In a recent thread i discussed with Marc the alpha bitmap design, and was pointed that would be no performance penalty if a 24bit bitmap is used in a 32bit color display since the number of bytes per pixel would be equal. Initially i agreed but i found that

[lazarus] Performance of 24bit bitmap in 32bit color display

2007-09-02 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
In a recent thread i discussed with Marc the alpha bitmap design, and was pointed that would be no performance penalty if a 24bit bitmap is used in a 32bit color display since the number of bytes per pixel would be equal. Initially i agreed but i found that this info is incorrect. A 24bit