Re: 16 bit per sample support

Ewald R. de Wit (ewald@pobox.com)
Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:53:43 +0200

becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de (becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de) wrote:
> and even faster/simpler:
>
> converted=(old<<4)+(old>>8)

Thanks for the explanation! Clearly the CPU overhead to do this in the
backend is utterly insignificant.

> > OTOH it would be nice to have simple access to the deep color data in
> > a unified 16 bit format. Perhaps in the longer run this would be
> > better.
>
> This is the idea. Keep the protocol simple for the _general_ case.

Ok, you have my vote (if I have one to begin with :-)

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