[SDL] Accelerated Alpha Blending in SDL ?

[Peter Mulholland]

Abhijit Nandy wrote:
> 1.Why doesn't SDL support h/w accelerated Alpha blending ? Will this issue be fixed in the future (1.3)?

Because it was never implemented in DirectDraw.

> 3.By the way i heard that parts of SDL are in assembly. But wont the compiler generate assembly code anyway ? Does hand coding the assembly allow more efficient code than that generated by the compiler?

Yes. The compiler doesn't know exactly what you're trying to do, so 
writing a hand tuned routine in assembly is usually a lot faster. The 
blitter routines in SDL further use MMX to speed things up.

Pete.