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Dave Buck does some fast alpha blending in Cincom Smalltalk, without dropping to C:
Using this technique, I can alpha blend two images of size 1128x680 within about 200mS on my system. Not bad for being pure Smalltalk code. With a primitive, I'm sure I can go much faster.