Re: surface cdata property restricted to double or uint8

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Michael Goffioul
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Percentage is normally stated relative to status quo. You'd cut down
>> memory from 4*lda to 3*lda, that is -25%.
>
> Oh come on Jaroslav. Percentage is stated from previous situation to
> a new situation. In this case, we've gone from 3*lda to 4*lda, which is
> a 33% memory increase. If you revert the changes, the "gain" will be
> 25%, but 0% from the original code.
>

I considered John's latest changeset to be the current situation. I
thought that previously uint8 data wasn't allowed at all. At least
that's the impression I got.


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