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From:Bart King
Date:30 Jun 2000 at 20:18:35
Subject:Re: PPC BMP Datatype

Michael Carter <michael.carter@aspentech.com> wrote:

> Does anybody know if theres a PPC BMP datatype available as my current one
> running on my 060 is a slow pig when decoding skins for AMPlifier. And

BMP takes about 15 lines of code to read in from disk. It's not the BMP
datatype being slow, it's the Amiga datatype system as a whole being
generally slow.

While DataTypes are a good idea, they are very flawed.


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