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- Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl writes:
- > 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?)
-
- It's not storing a huge window-sized pixmap -- that would take one
- hell of a lot of memory. It's letting the X window mechanism generate
- appropriate expose events and repainting on the fly. Parsing a
- document that long and finding out how to break it up into document
- pages just plain takes a while -- but, for what it's worth, it will
- take less time in 0.9, for reasons I'm not even going to go into here.
-
- Marc
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