Re: compression beta, and BIG bitmaps
- Posted by Wolf <wolfritz at KING.IGS.NET> Feb 23, 2002
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<tone.skoda at siol.net> wrote: > I'll take that back. I tried it with 75 MB bitmap - it works slooow. < chuckle > I can imagine ! A 75 MB bitmap would translate to 300 MB of Euphoria 'sequence' just for the pixel data ! Four bytes/byte... with a *lot* of disk swapping, no doubt. The "Remove Colors" option is, in any case, the slowest part of the program, and almost useless for bitmaps of more than about 32 KB, since a 256 color palette is only 1 KB to start with. Wolf