Re: FW: XFree86 future

Billy Biggs <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.forum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mark Vojkovich ([email protected]):

> The main cause of 2D performance problems in my opinion is apps that
> are poorly written.  Next would be that some of the operations the
> more modern apps would like to do aren't supported in the core X11
> primitive set so they end up doing them in software and copying the
> result with PutImage.  [...]

  Sort of on topic, what about an API to 'StretchBlt' functionality?  Do
you think that should be done with RGB surface support in XVideo, apps
just using OpenGL, or a new extension as part of the XShmPutImage stuff?

-- 
Billy Biggs
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