Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:13:43 -0700 (PDT) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: Huge console switching lags |
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> On x86 they'll probably make no difference at all, unless the old code > is really really crap. Your bottleneck is the PCI bus. All you can do is > avoid reads.
True. We have discussed the idea of placing the fonts into video memory instead of system memory if the graphics card has room. At first I didn't like the idea since handling scrolling would become more difficult. It can be done tho with enough "tricks". I think it should be up to the driver write where he/she can place the font image. This case drawimage becomes copyarea except you grabbing off screen data. I have some thinking about how to handle that.
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