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This used to be a well known technique by windows users to save memory and resources, back in the day when the desktop background could have an impact on system

by SeanDav 11y ago

This used to be a well known technique by windows users to save memory and resources, back in the day when the desktop background could have an impact on system performance. The trick was to have a background of an image of a few pixels square and use the "Stretch to fit" option, which created beautiful soothing backgrounds, but only take a few bytes of memory.

detaro 11y ago
Did that actually have an effect, since the full-size interpolated version had to be in memory anyways?
- foldr 11y ago
  It might have only had to have been in video memory. Depends on exactly what kinds of blitting operation were available.