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- From: tef@acsu.buffalo.edu (Tom Frisinger)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: 256 color faster than 16 color ...why?
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 02:14:12 GMT
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- Hello,
- I've done some tests and found out that 256 is indeed much faster
- than 16 color at the same resolution. Why is this? I tested
- 320x200x16 vs. 320x200x256, and 640x480x16 vs. 640x480x256, and
- 800x600x16 vs. 800x600x256. I figure that that covered all the
- memory ranges pretty well. The 256 color out performed the 16 color
- by anywhere from 10%-40%!!! The only possible explantion I can
- think of is that with 256 color they can to fast byte operations on
- memory vs. messing around with 4bits and shifting and all that. Is
- this theory at all on the right track?
- Thanks for the help.
-
- Tom Frisinger
- tef@acsu.buffalo.edu
-
- GO BILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-