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- From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
- Subject: Re: MakeScreen(); RethinkDisplay() vs. MakeVPort(); MrgCop(); LoadView()
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.101508.12502@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 10:15:08 GMT
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- In <33307@cbmvax.commodore.com> peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) writes:
- >Intuition gives you features, but that comes with overhead. Intuition
- >is pretty efficient for the most part, especially given its responsibilities
- >vis the kinds of things it has to achieve and support. RethinkDisplay()
- >is slow because it potentially has a lot of work to do. Far more than
- >you probably realize.
-
- Maybe RethinkDisplay does too many things for most tasks. Can't there be
- specialized functions for scrolling a viewport or swapping double buffers ?
-
- >RethinkDisplay() is the general "I munged a screen, please make everything
- >happy again" function. We're not going to supply specialized mini-versions
- >to handle each potential sub-case.
-
- Not each subcase but certain subcases would be useful.
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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