What is the fastest way to draw a 2D array of color triplets on screen?

Question

The target language is C/C++ and the program has only to work on Linux, but platform independent solutions are preferred obviously. I run Xorg, XVideo and OpenGL are available.<

Answer 1

I did this a while back using C and OpenGL, and got very good performance by creating a full screen sized quad, and then use texture mapping to transfer the bitmap onto the face of the quad.

Here's some example code, hope you can make use of it.

#include 
#include 

#define WIDTH 1024
#define HEIGHT 768

unsigned char texture[WIDTH][HEIGHT][3];             

void renderScene() {    

    // render the texture here

    glEnable (GL_TEXTURE_2D);
    glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);

    glTexImage2D (
        GL_TEXTURE_2D,
        0,
        GL_RGB,
        WIDTH,
        HEIGHT,
        0,
        GL_RGB,
        GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE,
        &texture[0][0][0]
    );

    glBegin(GL_QUADS);
        glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 0.0f); glVertex2f(-1.0, -1.0);
        glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 0.0f); glVertex2f( 1.0, -1.0);
        glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 1.0f); glVertex2f( 1.0,  1.0);
        glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 1.0f); glVertex2f(-1.0,  1.0);
    glEnd();

    glFlush();
    glutSwapBuffers();
}

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    glutInit(&argc, argv);
    glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_DOUBLE | GLUT_RGB);

    glutInitWindowPosition(100, 100);
    glutInitWindowSize(WIDTH, HEIGHT);
    glutCreateWindow(" ");

    glutDisplayFunc(renderScene);

    glutMainLoop();

    return 0;
}