[haiku-appserver] Re: private development

Hi,

Sorry I am slow in responding: busy with RL and GL :)

Currently I am working on doing Direct access to the GLWindow, blitting 
backbuffer to front: so it's fun reading this stuff now :)
(Blitting will use DirectConnected, while software GL does not)

> BTW I really think we can (and should) reduce this a bit more - the 
> whole UI stands still during that period, so the BDirectWindow should 
> never take that long anyway for one update.
> Of course, I don't know yet how this would affect software GL stuff, 

The software GL stuff doesn't use direct access: it just uses standard 
drawing functions (like drawing a bitmap). The app_server takes care of 
clipping and timing, etc.

If the framerate of a GL app is slow, it's not because of drawing back 
to front, but because of GL rendering in the backbuffer. This is 
totally decoupled from the app_Server etc. (all AFAIK ATM of course :)

> but that shouldn't be too hard to find out; and in general, I guess 
> we 
> can safely consider anything that comes even close to half a second 
> can 
> be considered as a bug. Therefore, I think we might as well kill apps 
> that need more than 1 second for its drawings.

I would agree, with my limited knowledge here :)

Bye,

Rudolf.

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