Re: Removing assumption of unsigned long pixel values for colours

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alex Gramiak <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 11:14:41 -0600
> 
> > OK, but that just says that each platform already performs the mapping
> > you wanted to avoid.  What makes your back-end special that it needs
> > to avoid this?
> 
> My initial reasoning was the time argument, which turned out to be
> wrong.
> 
> Now I want to avoid the lookup table approach

Once again: why?

And what table look up do you need, when you originally said that a
conversion would do?  What am I missing?