[ENH] Faster BMP writing ( I would like to see this in 3.7 but I need feedback )

Yoshiki Ohshima Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org
Thu Mar 25 22:54:00 UTC 2004


  Hello,

> On Thursday 25 March 2004 1:36 pm, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
> > > Have you looked at the size of a .bmp file reciently?
> >
> >   What do you mean by that?  Isn't a bmp file the same old bmp file,
> > is it?
> 
> Sure, but there are few reasons any more to use one instead of (say) a PNG or 
> GIF.

  Ah, that is what you guys mean.  I don't mind personally that this
change doesn't go to the main image.  But, isn't it nice if a *part*
of the system runs 30 times faster without writing new primitives and
(presumably) not breaking the other parts of system?

-- Yoshiki



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