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		jbarham on April 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The byte order fallacy > Being able to load a pixel as an int is the reason 32-bit RGB is used more often as a pixel format than 24-bit. No: RGBA.

pmjordan on April 4, 2012 [–]

Nope. Even 24-bit RGB with no alpha is stored with a wasted byte in video memory these days. (outside of legacy video modes) The reason is alignment.

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