Re: xfree will be the best....
Marco Bubke <[email protected]>
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Keith Packard wrote: >Around 14 o'clock on Apr 5, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > > >>Last I checked Xrender was an extension to the core renderer to speed up >>operations not well handled in the core, but did not replace many common >>operations the core handles just fine. >> >> > >Render may be just an extension, but it does provide a complete >replacement rendering model. When reasonably accelerated, there should be >no reason to ever use the core rendering requests again. The Plan-9 >window system has been running for a long time with the same rendering >model. > >The only functionality currently missing from the extension is some kind >of image transport mechanism to replace PutImage. The semantics of that >operation are easy enough to specify in terms of the fundemental Render >primitive, but there are questions about image encoding and precisely how >to pass all of the existing picture parameters that no-one has spent the >necessary time to figure out. > >I hope to have a chance to look at this sometime soon; application >performance over networks would greatly benefit from more efficient image >encodings than are now available. > > > Hi Keith How difficult would it be to layer Render over OpenGL? I really don't know render but it looks to me a little bit like the classic OpenGL raster stage. Marco email: [email protected]