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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: Xgl/Xegl future?
From:       Eric Anholt <eta () lclark ! edu>
Date:       2005-08-24 16:57:19
Message-ID: 1124902639.91625.9.camel () leguin
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On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 17:57 +0200, Michael Pujos wrote:
>  I think most people under estimate the importance of a pure GL-based
> server like Xgl.
> 
> It seems much more simple and *unified* to me than using OpenGL based
> rendering at the toolkit level. With Xgl you have only one rendering
> context for all the desktop and 2D apps and additional rendering context
> only for real OpenGL apps such as games.
> 
> Here's some well known advantages
> 
> - you have lightning fast double buffering

You alread have lightning fast double buffering.  Seriously.  Cards are
really good at copying memory.

> - Z-buffer take care of window ordering

Wouldn't be used.

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Eric Anholt                                     eta@lclark.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/              anholt@FreeBSD.org

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