From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Speed of Allegro Datafiles
Date:	Thu, 11 Sep 1997 23:34:43 +0100
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>When an Allegro datafile is loaded into
>memory, is each object treated individually?  For example, is blitting a
>bitmap from a datafile onto the screen the same as blitting a bitmap
>which was created at runtime?  

Absolutely. How an object was created makes no difference to the format
of the data, so it doesn't matter whether it was loaded from a datafile
or not. The datafile routines are simply a handy way of storing lots of
objects in a single file, and making sure the data is always loaded in a
ready-to-go Allegro format: they don't affect how the data behaves once
it is in memory.


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