Re: direct rendering and compatability

Alan Cox <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.forum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> How do you manage multiple applications if each one is writing directly to the
> screen without a central server to coordinate them?  How do you handle input
> events without a central server to receive them and distribute them?  Do you
> send them to every app, making them all wake up and determine whether they want
> this event?  That would seem to be a true performance killer.

Read the AmigaOS stuff. You can do it. The question is merely one of whether
the locking is more expensive than the IPC
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