The text is written as if it's thinking about handling 64-bit
unsigned long, but it doesn't. The tables that map bits to
pixels are completely unprepared for this.
I thought about widening the tables, but I thought they'd get
unreasonably large. There's no reason not to go ahead and
handle this 32-bits at a time.
I thought the tables would come back to haunt us. The only reason the
tables where introduced was for speed enhancements. I reason the code is
extra complex was so you could pass 64 bits of data across the bus. I
still like to see that happen still. What do you think?