portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) (04/11/90)
How fast can the blitter copy blocks of memory? I'm talking pixels per second for one bitplane. --M -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics, Inc. portuesi@sgi.com
p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst) (04/13/90)
In article <PORTUESI.90Apr11163437@tweezers.esd.sgi.com> portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes: > >How fast can the blitter copy blocks of memory? I'm talking pixels >per second for one bitplane. If you use the right channels, you'll get a word copied in two memory cycles. This is 2*560ns / 16 pixels = 70 ns/pixel or more than 14000000 pixels/second. -- Michael van Elst p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de