Re: Re: how to write snappy benchmark?

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Allen Akin wrote:
> 
> |    I believe that direct rendering will make the latency worse in
> | the case of exposures.  It does for 3D.  Nothing has changed from
> | the description I gave above except that now the apps all have
> | to synchronize with the X-server before they can render.  ...
> 
> That wasn't true for systems I've worked on in the past, so I don't
> believe it's true in general.  If it's a bottleneck in our current
> systems, at least it's something those of us working at the low level
> can fix to make life easier for those higher in the food chain.
> 

   On what, Reality Engine ?  :) 

   PC graphics hardware generally doesn't look anything like Reality
Engine.

   Perhaps you can give a specific platform and an example of 
how moving a window while 3D is running doesn't insert pipeline
bubbles.


			Mark.