Re: [SPAM: 8.000] [pygame] Pygame 2.0 software blits

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 14-03-03 02:48 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
> > A Pygame level production blitter would extend the simple bytecode 
> > language to support basic arithmetic operations, different integer 
> > sizes, as well as higher level operations such as pixel 
> > encoding/decoding and alpha blitting. It would replace code in 
> > alphablit.c, pixelcopy.c, and freetype/ft_render_cb.c.
> >
> > Just something to consider.
>
> This sounds very interesting, especially if it allows a
> wider and more useful set of operations to be supported,
> such as specifying separate combining functions for rgb
> and alpha channels.
If the bytecode is exposed at the Python end then any expression can be 
encoded, a different one for each channel if desired. Conceivably, a 
Python expression, or function, could be compiled into a blit operation.