Use buffers to process graphics

Use buffers to process graphics. This would decrease slowdowns and lag.

The idea is good, but it involve lots of work.

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If decision is made to implant this, I suggest the work to be spitted to all coders.

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Just to enlighten everyone who wasn't on IRC when this was discussed:
 so basically we lag to hell thanks to sprites
 mhm
 technically it doesn't lag because it's sprites
 it lags because those sprites are stored in a very compact way and have to be decompressed and processed before rendering
 and they don't bother to cache the result of that processing
 so every frame the engine goes to reindex each shp with its palette
 and recompute the voxels somehow
 which I don't quite understand (or want to)
 I may do not know what I am speaking about, but how about creating a buffert?
 that requires memory
 sure we can try that nowadays
 personally I haven't tried that because there are plenty of other things to do that are less messy to do
 Of course.
 how much memery are we talking about? and how big improvment is a buffert?
 I think you're looking for a "buffer", not "buffet"
 though that second option is more delicious
 as for memory usage, needs some math
 if we want to decompress each shp before use, that's probably 50% more space than compressed shps
 shps that only use one palette (non-remappables) would need just one buffer, which would be twice the size of the shp itself (16 bit color)
 remappables, er, would need a separate buffer for each remap