[interfacekit] Re: :) Again - BBitmap

"Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2) ... two proposals for limiting the number of app server threads 
> spawned for bitmap drawing. In case 1) is employed, this would only 
> concern off-screen bitmaps, since all other bitmaps would be rendered 
> by the application. One could even go so far to argue that it's the 
> responsibility of the developer then -- it's their own fault, when 
> they 
> create 100 off-screen bitmaps and experience problems due to that. At 
> least I wouldn't nag, if whoever implements it would argue that way. 
> But the proposed solutions are nicer options, of course.

Couldn't this approach be used for windows as well?
Not that I would say do it now :)

> 3) ... the need for a solution of a real problem, which would be to 
> raise the resource limits for the app server.

I think we should definitely have a way to reduce the stack BeOS 
provides for a stack - it's not always needed to have 256 kB stack in a 
thread, and it wastes address space.

Adios...
   Axel.

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