You might remember that I wrote - a patch adding MMX code on machines supporting it to speed up some layer operations (tremendous boost for some operations) - a patch making the layer transparency much faster. Are you still interested? The first one patches mostly cleanly (but wants some automake/autoconf modifications I'd rather not deal with), the second one needs a bit of work due to some modifications in the source code. --- David Monniaux Tel: +33 1 44 32 20 66 Fax: +33 1 44 32 20 80 Laboratoire d'informatique de l'École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d'Ulm - 75230 PARIS cedex 5 - FRANCE