From: Shawn Hargreaves Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Speed of Allegro Datafiles Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 23:34:43 +0100 Organization: None Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <34176C9A DOT 6E20 AT voyageur DOT ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: talula.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 16 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk >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. -- Shawn Hargreaves - shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk - http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/ Beauty is a French phonetic corruption of a short cloth neck ornament.