[self-interest] graphics primitive

Jecel Assumpcao Jr jecel at merlintec.com
Tue Nov 16 20:02:02 UTC 1999


Mario Wolczko wrote:
> 
> Jecel asked:
> > [how about just one to blit a buffer to the screen?]
> 
> Simpler, but display performance for a shared world (where most
> displays are remote) is not great when you copy large chunks of the
> frame buffer around.

I hadn't thought about that. But now that you have brought it up,
there can be no shared worlds on the Mac, right? Nor in Windows if
somebody does a port. So it seems we are going to have to forget X
in any case and move to a different architecture.

-- Jecel



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