Re: Gamma correction using GDK/directly accessing pixmap pixels

[Hongl Lai <hongli telekabel nl>]

On Sat, 2001-12-01 at 00:16, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Not that I'm aware of. If you copy data into a canonical format such
> as GdkPixbuf, then you inherently and unavoidably add the overhead of
> one copy into that format and one copy back out of it into display
> format. If you don't copy data, you inherently have the problem of 20
> different display formats. This is totally unavoidable, because
> computer hardware has different display formats.
>
> So the question you have to answer is whether you can afford the two
> extra copies.
>
> Havoc

Not even my brand new Athlon 1,4 Ghz can afford that! o_0
I think I'll just copy some code from SDL...