Re: Mono or Multi-process ?

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Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++bitch.reading.sgi.com)
Mon, 6 Nov 1995 12:11:14 +0100

On Nov 6, 2:04am, Jim Helman wrote:

> 2) Moving the clear to right after a swapbuffers is an
> incredibly lousy idea. Screen clears do take a long time, but
> this would block and really slow things down. This would
> require a non-blocking swap-and-clear which we don't have.
>

But youre not saying that this blocks until after the clear is finnished,
just until the buffers swap and clear returns.

So this might improve things if your draw finnished close to the
frame boundary, and you wern't pixel limited at the end of draw?

> -jim helman
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>-- End of excerpt from Jim Helman

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Angus Dorbie,
Silicon Graphics Ltd, UK
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