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From:	korpela AT islay DOT ssl DOT berkeley DOT edu (Eric J. Korpela)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Setpixel in AT&T inline asm....
Date:	11 Jul 1996 18:54:21 GMT
Organization:	Cal Berkeley-- Space Sciences Lab
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In article <4rj0kb$sf3 AT nef DOT ens DOT fr>,
Pascal Massimino <massimin AT clipper DOT ens DOT fr> wrote:
>In article <4rh0g5$m9r AT twain DOT mo DOT net>, vecna AT Walden DOT mo DOT net ([vecna]) writes:
>|> I'm trying to write a simple putpixel to
>|> a 320x200 virtual screen, which is already allocated and defined as:
>|> 
>|> char *virscr;
>|> 
>|> This is my (yes, unoptimized) setpixel routine:
>|> 
>	movl _y,%eax
>	imull $320,%eax
>	addl _x,%eax
>	movb _c,%cl
>	addl _virscr,%eax
>	movb %cl,(%eax)

how about....

  lookup_table[y][x]=c;

where lookup_table is initialized at startup to...

char **lookup_table
for (i=0;i<200;i++) {
  lookup_table[i]=virscr+i*320;
}

It's bound to be faster than an imull.

Eric

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