displayio.Bitmap: Allow modification though the buffer protocol #4549
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
It is required to call .dirty() with appropriate arguments after modifications through the buffer protocol, or the display might not be updated correctly.
I've played with this a bit locally with #4547 with an adapted FFT waterfall and it is the fastest method I found to update bitmap content. However, both this and arrayblit were about 10x faster than repeated assignment to bitmap elements, and the remaining difference was small. (12ms vs 1.2ms or 0.5ms for the bitmap update & redraw step only; "row time" includes 16ms to record sound and 8ms to process the FFT)