From: Doug Eleveld <deleveld AT dds DOT nl>
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Subject: ANNOUNCE:  RLE (run length encoded) font routines for Allegro
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 16:59:57 +0200
Organization: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
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ANNOUNCE:  RLE (run length encoded) font routines for Allegro

RLEFONT is some code to create/display run length encoded (RLE) fonts
for use with Allegro. They are alot smaller that the Allegro fonts and
are sometimes faster.  On my machine (pentium 90 with ET6000) they are
2.5 times as slow (which is still pretty fast) for filled background and
20% faster for empty backgrounds than Allegro's normal textout
function.  Included is a profiling program (requires pentium) to see how
fast the text output is on your machine.  There are examples of how to
use the lib and source code is included. 

You can find it at http://huizen.dds.nl/~deleveld/index.htm

Doug Eleveld