In colourMap mode there are 256 colours in a colour palette sent from
the server via the SetColourMapEntries message. This reduces the
bandwidth by about 1/4. However, appearance can be somewhat less than
ideal (pinks instead of gray, etc).
It also increases client side rendering performance especially on
firefox. Rendering a full 800x600 update takes about 950ms in
firefox on my system compared to about 1400ms. Round-trip time for
a full frame buffer update is even better on firefox (due to
performance of the flash WebSocket emulator). Reduced from about
1800ms to 1100ms on firefox (for 800x600 full update).
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