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Comment Re:A little background (Score 1) 223

by excessive on Wednesday February 09, 2005 @07:51AM (#11616860) Attached to: Grand Unified Theory of SIMD

"getting all of these pixels" is going to take the same length of time, (The processor has to have the data locally to act on it - and there is still the same number of buses from RAM into the chip) it's just the arithmatic on the values that is done in parallel.

Also, IIRC, brightness is a scaling function... (But that's just me being picky)

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