[whatwg] getImageData/putImageData comments

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> 
> I still think that we need a better "I have some externally-derived 
> pixel data I'd like to just stick in this canvas" API here.  fillRect() 
> has terrible performance characteristics (as has been brought up many 
> times before), and the current imagedata design makes it very difficult 
> to use it correctly for this purpose...

It's not that hard, it's an extra four or five lines of code to fill in 
multiple pixels in a square (two nested for-loops and an expression or two 
to work out what the limit is). Compared to the maths such code would be 
doing anyway, this is trivial stuff.

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