Re: FW: Fix 687189 for bbox_forward_add_rect infiniterecursion

Dan,

> From: "Dan Coby" <[email protected]>
> To: "Igor V. Melichev" <[email protected]>; "Gs-Code-Review"
<[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 10:32 PM
> Subject: RE: [gs-code-review] FW: Fix 687189 for bbox_forward_add_rect
infiniterecursion (xefitra)


> and x11alpha devices (probably Peter) knew what he was doing and
> that there is some need for the multiple bounding box devices in
> some case.

I wouldn't do such assumpion,
because the author isn't necesserily Peter,
and the mechanizm changed several times after that.
In any case everybody can mistake.
Since now we are who maintain the code,
we should either somehow reach a complete unrerstanding,
or rewrite the code.

>
> Since the bounding box device imposes little in the way of overhead
> and there are other tasks that have value to our users and we have
> finite resources, I see little justification for an effort to
> further optimize this code.

I would not consider this as an optimization.
There are anomalies, and they to be fixed before an optimization.
Maybe it needs to unoptimize first.

Igor.