Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/01/13/01:43:36
>You should consider using page flipping instead of double-buffering. As a
>matter of fact, it's almost the same as double buffering with one except:
>you do your rendering right into videomemory, so no data moving is needed.
>You just change visible area on the screen from one page to another and so
>on - this is obviously faster than double buffering
Depending on your target market. Many people still have slower VIDEO RAM then
CPU RAM, and in most VGA modes BANKS will slow you down and make programing
virtual pages even slower.
I like to use FPUCOPY on pentium machines for moving the double buffer. Pretty
fast.
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