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- Regarding Bill Jansen's experience, I read in his message a question
- that you haven't answered but which perhaps lies at the core of his
- complaint: the way I read it, he believes that you write the text
- *once* into a background pixmap and then scroll it around. I can't
- believe this is true. If indeed it isn't true you should perhaps
- explain why it takes so long to read the RFC in (is it just slow ftp
- or are you doing lots of processing?) and whether it is true that the
- X server should be chewing up CPU? Could it be that Bill's server is
- too eager to do backing store and generates an exposure event for the
- entire subwindow? (Perhaps Xmosaic can set a resource that disables
- this behavior?)
-
- Relevant excerpts from Bill's message:
-
- > [...] Well, I got through to the RFC -- and
- > suddenly my X server started chewing up CPU. [...]
- >
- > [...] xmosaic seems to *paint*
- > text strings on a window, and then pan the window around when the
- > user scrolls, rather than re-drawing the text.
-
- --Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl>
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