[interfacekit] Re: BHandler::fToken

From: cdegea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Cedric Degea)
To: interfacekit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:50:56 CET

> (on the client-side BWindow->fLastViewToken, keeps the current
> > view), this reduces command size overhead.
> 
> Mmh, I wonder whether 4 bytes for the token would be of any significance.
> At least performance-wise the, at least two, syscalls to deliver the
> set_current_view command should outweigh the additional overhead for
> copying of hundreds of tokens.

BView drawing instructions are buffered/queued, the write_port()
sys_call is only issued once the queue is full, or Flush() explicitely called.
The set_current_view() function call I dunno, but one might guess
it could be inlined?

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References:

[interfacekit] Re: BHandler::fToken
From: Marc Flerackers

[interfacekit] Re: BHandler::fToken
From: Ingo Weinhold

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