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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 22:25:32 +0100 (MET)
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
>   My main concern now is 12x22 font... Accelerator setup
> is so costly for each separate painted character that for 8bpp 
> accelerated version is even slower than unaccelerated one :-(
> (and almost twice as slow when compared with 2.4.x).

Have you already tried Antonino's patches to use one imageblit for multiple
characters with (fontwidth % 8) != 0? It should help.

BTW, I still have to try it with amifb.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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