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On May 3, 1:01=A0am, tmo...@acm.org wrote:

> Generic handling at the pixel level will surely be slower than direct
> coding that knows what it's operating on, and that will be an issue
> if there's any significant pixel level processing.
Not necessarily if the generics are properly inlined (perhaps you are
thinking of shared generics).
The range of primary colors is now a generic parameter too. So there
will be tests like "if Color_Range'Last=3D255 then..." which will be
resolved at compile-time by smart compilers.

[...]
> But is your package aimed more at processing images, or at doing IO on
> the myriad file formats of images?
Only decoding images of various formats, that's all!
>=A0And how about video?
This is not excluded. Probably I'll add an out parameter,
time_of_next_frame, to the Load_image_contents procedure.
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