Re: Blitter to make Pingus faster

[Ingo Ruhnke]

Gervase Lam <address@hidden> writes:

>> 1) take the Blitter class and rewrite it in assembler or at least
>>    replace all the evil get_pixel()/draw_pixel() blitters with real
>>    ones that act directly on the data. (Note: these are only used to
>>    paint on the groundmap, normal Sprites which get drawn to the
>>    screen use ClanLib stuff)
> 
> Use the Hermes library instead, which would by pass ClanLib?

Hermes in its current form doesn't have many working blitters, at
least as far as I know. The one it has should be useable via
CL_Surface::put_target(), but well that work sometimes and other times
it doesn't, it isn't really the most bug free part of clanlib.

Anyway, Hermes might be useable in a few situation, but keep in mind
that we also need a few special-purpose blitters that might not be
covered in Hermes (the remove_blitter, all the stuff inside the
colmap, etc).

PS: I have never really looked much into Hermes so I might be
completly wrong...

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