Re: maximing/resizing multiple x11: change of palette

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Petr Mikulik wrote:

>We are back to the complain that the ascii-piped X11 is horribly slow.
>Binary transfer (aka OS/2's pm.trm) would boost the performance.
>

Yes.

>I never used palette larger than 256. Usually 100. Note that Octave's
>default value is 64 -- try:  size(gray)
>

Well, that's certainly not a problem.

>I don't know whether Octave users treat "truecolor" photographs, where you
>need more colors.
>

I'm guessing usually 8 bits.  But probably there will be users who have 
images stored in higher resolution than needed, yet will want the large 
palette even though it's superfluous.  Wait to see if someone complains.

Dan