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- From: dave@kanga.lcs.mit.edu (David Sternlicht)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews
- Subject: Re: real-time graphics and IV
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.145042.28518@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 14:50:42 GMT
- Article-I.D.: mintaka.1992Nov18.145042.28518
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- ejmrs@vuse.vanderbilt.edu writes:
- I would appreciate some comments, ideas or past experiences related to
- this, and opinions as to what extent IV is suited for developing a GUI in a
- real-time application.
-
- One thing we failed to mention in our work is that interviews double buffers
- its rendering. This can be turned off by the -nodebuf run-time option.
- So in theory this should speed up an application although the flicker produced can
- be distracting. In the ice program -nodebuf does not seem to have an appreciable
- effect on the speed of its scrollbars.
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- dave sternlicht
- mit X consortium
- dave@expo.lcs.mit.edu
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