32 bit Bitmaps

[Fyron]

I know of Microsoft's DIB insanity... but does anyone else actually use 32 bit bitmaps in the real world?

[Baron Munchausen]

32-bit is not about the color. It's about the data format. Computers us binary math, remember. Doing any sort of calculation in powers of two is much, much faster for a computer than working in other numeric system. So 32-bit images are faster for computers to handle than 24-bit images. The colors are the same.