Re: Is double buffering in video memory really faster?

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From: Tijs van Bakel (smoke@wanadoo.nl)
Date: Thu 09 Aug 2001 - 01:21:04 IDT


Gregory Huczynski <greg@dcs.gla.ac.uk> writes:

> On a theoretical level, I thought that the second version would be faster, as 
> I'm writing directly to video memory and only change one pointer to update a 
> frame; in contrast, in the first version, I have to do a memory copy to update 
> a frame. Any ideas why double buffering in video memory is actually
> slower?

Do you use the same video modes?  Could you post the code somewhere,
or put it online?

-- 
Tijs van Bakel, <smoke@wanadoo.nl>

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