On Thursday 25 April 2002 09:05 am, Ned Konz wrote:
> On Thursday 25 April 2002 08:46 am, Mike Shields wrote:
> > I still don't know which endianness (big- or little-) to
> > choose... I think it showed up in 3.2, but what is that talking
> > about? Is it possible for the endianness of the video bytes to be
> > different than the cpu? What gives?
>
> Where do you choose the endianness?
>
> I think that Diego is talking about the WorldMenu/appearance/set
> display depth setting, which provides the best speed generally when
> it is set to the depth of the native hardware.

Though it's not necessarily a big difference. On my system (note the 
microseconds values):

Time microsecondsToRun: [ Display forceToScreen ]  

1 bit  84200.0
2 bits 86600.0
4 bits 86900.0
8 bits 87800.0
16 bits 118900.0
32 bits 98900.0

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