From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Wed Jul 7 17:12:06 2010 Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 00:06:52 +0300 From: George Nakos X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <656678065.20100708000652@hol.gr> To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] Bit-Depth and Graphics stuff.... In-Reply-To: <4C34E8E7.5080906@online.no> References: <2d64e795294918b05c6ec6ea3bc731b7-EhVcX1lFRQVaRwYcDTpQCEFddQZLVF5dQUBFBDBTXF5bVkYPXkF0A1Y6XF1YSUYAWVNeQw==-webmailer2@server08.webmailer.hosteurope.de> <6BF9B6DD-38A2-4874-8D8C-10EE1E99E6DD@gmail.com> <1BCB0F08-DCCB-423A-B4E1-CCDB279C6B83@gmail.com> <6dbce3cf64caf9c3441739836652cad8-EhVcX1lFRQVaRwYcDTpQCEFddQZLVF5dQUBFBDBTXF5bVkYMXUF0BVM6XF1YSUADWl9cQw==-webmailer2@server05.webmailer.hosteurope.de> <4C34C2E4.5080909@online.no> <3847624A-0252-410C-B103-5BA7AAE195E0@gmail.com> <4C34CB22.6060200@online.no> <1485596247.20100707220136@hol.gr> <4C34E8E7.5080906@online.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2/10739/Wed Apr 14 06:54:30 2010 on takeit02.mail.dc.hol.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: ggn@hol.gr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id o67LC6hm017665 Hello Jo, Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 11:51:51 PM, you wrote: > On 07/07/2010 09:01 PM, George Nakos wrote: >>> If you don't use some sort of intermediate standard format, you're >>> looking at 30+ versions of the jpeg->screen routine. >> >> So what if we wrote a library with those 30+ versions, with optimised >> routines for every case, agreed to use it from now on and then lock it >> away and throw away the key? > Sounds like maintenance hell to me, and a sure way to make software that > doesn't work on future hardware. Weird, it doesn't sound like that to me at all. -- Best regards, George mailto:ggn@hol.gr