> i lately thought of inserting the alpha characters into the rgb string 
> using String#insert from
> back to front, so i don t need to worry about changing indices (due to 
> insertion) and i can Striong#chop! off the used alpha bytes.

i implemented this, and it was a bad idea. that was extremely slow too.

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