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From: "pal" <pal_news@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Misc NY short questions
Date: 14 Sep 2001 22:19:15 GMT
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Wow, thanks Alex, this could not be made clearer!

Alex Herbert <alex@herbs.dabsol.co.uk> wrote in article
<9nqf76$2qp3@www.netyaroze-europe.com>...
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> I understand your thinking that a 16-bit sprite should be faster than
> 4/8-bit ones, and you'd be right if it wasn't for the GPU's texture cache
> and CLUT cache.

I see... I had not thought about when the conversion to 16bit happened...