Best way to display a background with a pattern in an iPhone/iPad app

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Published on 2010-04-21T22:01:19Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 22:03 UTC
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Here's an example of the type of background image I'm talking about...

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Clearly, there's a pattern in it. My question is, if this were an iPad app and the background image was twice the size, would there be any significant benefits to taking advantage of this pattern by tiling the image? Or would it really make no difference in terms of performance and just be easier to load the entire image into a UIImageView?

Thanks in advance for all your wisdom!

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