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From:	Sahab Yazdani <sahaby AT geocities DOT com>
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Subject:	Fastest Method of Virtual Buffer->Video Memory?
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Date:	Fri, 23 Oct 1998 20:59:58 -0500
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I'd like to know what is the fastest method for putting an x-sized
virtual buffer into video-memory.

Reading from a book: "PC Game Programming Explorer" the Dirty Rectangles
technique seems the fastest (Only copy portions that were used), but I'd
like to know if there is even a faster method?

Also if I translate an "unsigned char *" to an "long long *" will I get
a faster copy time?  because I'll be only copying 1/4 the data?  I read
somewhere that this is true?
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