On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 06:30:53PM +0100, egger@xxxxxxx wrote: > Does this mean that you agree to ditching all the special code > for the 3 and 1 byte case as well? I'd really love to see this > changes although as already stated this might introduce a bit > memory overhead in case the user didn't use the alpha channel > at all. If we can get back COW during 1.3 this overhead is zero (all new channels / layers etc. can be created as COW tiles with the apppropriate contents -- huge speedup). I believe COW was lost because there were problems making it stable with all the spaghetti in 1.1.x, but presumably as we wipe out the worst of the spaghetti we should be able to bring it back, no? Nick.
