Fixed bug #15 SDL_blit_A.mmx-speed.patch.txt -- Speed improvements and a bugfix for the current GCC inline mmx asm code: - Changed some ops and removed some resulting useless ones. - Added some instruction parallelism (some gain) The resulting speed on my Xeon improved upto 35% depending on the function (measured in fps). - Fixed a bug where BlitRGBtoRGBSurfaceAlphaMMX() was setting the alpha component on the destination surfaces (to opaque-alpha) even when the surface had none. SDL_blit_A.mmx-msvc.patch.txt -- MSVC mmx intrinsics version of the same GCC asm code. MSVC compiler tries to parallelize the code and to avoid register stalls, but does not always do a very good job. Per-surface blending MSVC functions run quite a bit faster than their pure-asm counterparts (upto 55% faster for 16bit ones), but the per-pixel blending runs somewhat slower than asm. - BlitRGBtoRGBSurfaceAlphaMMX and BlitRGBtoRGBPixelAlphaMMX (and all variants) can now also handle formats other than (A)RGB8888. Formats like RGBA8888 and some quite exotic ones are allowed -- like RAGB8888, or actually anything having channels aligned on 8bit boundary and full 8bit alpha (for per-pixel alpha blending). The performance cost of this change is virtually 0 for per-surface alpha blending (no extra ops inside the loop) and a single non-MMX op inside the loop for per-pixel blending. In testing, the per-pixel alpha blending takes a ~2% performance hit, but it still runs much faster than the current code in CVS. If necessary, a separate function with this functionality can be made. This code requires Processor Pack for VC6.

.TH "SDL_Palette" "3" "Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:01" "SDL" "SDL API Reference" 
.SH "NAME"
SDL_Palette\- Color palette for 8-bit pixel formats
.SH "STRUCTURE DEFINITION"
.PP
.nf
\f(CWtypedef struct{
  int ncolors;
  SDL_Color *colors;
} SDL_Palette;\fR
.fi
.PP
.SH "STRUCTURE DATA"
.TP 20
\fBncolors\fR
Number of colors used in this palette
.TP 20
\fBcolors\fR
Pointer to \fI\fBSDL_Color\fR\fR structures that make up the palette\&.
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
Each pixel in an 8-bit surface is an index into the \fBcolors\fR field of the \fBSDL_Palette\fR structure store in \fI\fBSDL_PixelFormat\fR\fR\&. A \fBSDL_Palette\fR should never need to be created manually\&. It is automatically created when SDL allocates a \fBSDL_PixelFormat\fR for a surface\&. The colors values of a \fI\fBSDL_Surface\fR\fRs palette can be set with the \fI\fBSDL_SetColors\fP\fR\&.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\fI\fBSDL_Color\fR\fR, \fI\fBSDL_Surface\fR\fR, \fI\fBSDL_SetColors\fP\fR \fI\fBSDL_SetPalette\fP\fR
...\" created by instant / docbook-to-man, Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:01