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- To get gamma correction, I just filled a 'xcmap' style XPM image
- with the Maelstrom colormap, and displayed it with 'xv'. I used 'xv' to
- perform gamma correction on the colors, and then saved the gamma corrected
- XPM, and extracted the colors to a new colormap.
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- It turns out that shared memory XImage manipulation is actually
- faster than shared background pixmaps. This is because the contents of
- the window can be directly manipulated via the XImage, instead of having
- to be copied from the XImage. XShmPutImage() acts as XClearArea(),
- rather than XCopyArea(), and has corresponding speed. XShmPutImage()
- is faster than using shared background pixmaps, because the server
- no longer has to deal with tiling and such issues.
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- Asynchronous I/O works reliably under Linux, but seems to lead
- to race conditions on other versions of UNIX, when used for communication
- between Maelstrom and the sound server..
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- Actually, with the use of POSIX signal handling and select() to check
- for I/O in the I/O handler, asynchronous I/O seems to work well in every
- other system on which Maelstrom runs.
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- The port to other UNIXes besides Linux is beyond the scope
- of the rest of this document. Let's just say it involved quite a bit of
- work with byte order and sound driver development.
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