small repeating patterns == pain

[Havoc Pennington]

On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 10:53, Jaymz Julian wrote:
> 
> Now, this can obviously be fixed by implenting a whole bunch of solid colour 
> special cases, but as soon as we hit a general composite with this at any time
> (I am unconvinced that all special cases will be covered ;)), things go downhill
> *very* quickly, of course.
> 

It seems like there's an obvious optimization covering all cases, which
is to create a large tile by tiling the small tile then tile the large
tile.

Havoc