On Jan 21, 2008 9:07 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at> wrote:
finally, i am wondering how much the penalty would be to manually flip
the images when retrieving them (this would involve one additional copy
of the entire image, each time it is pulled from the source) - this will
just magically fix a lot of weirdness...

For high definition video the performance hit would potentially be great.  Since the memory will be accessed backwards the cache streaming will be poor too.