Re: Mono or Multi-process ?
Simon Gibbs (Simon.Gibbs++at++gmd.de)
Thu, 9 Nov 1995 11:13:18 +0100 (MET)
>
> Right. Which means that in single processed FLOAT or LOCK, you'd
> lose an entire frame, because the swap/clear will block to a frame
> boundary and later pfSync will do the same. In FREE_RUN, swap+clear
> would cause you to block to a field boundary at the end of the draw.
> This wastes time since without it, APP and sometimes CULL processing,
> can use the time between the completion of the DRAW and the next frame
> boundary. So swap+clear would only be useful if we had a version that
> did not block, which we do not.
Does this also mean that with single processed FLOAT or LOCK
(and FREE_RUN ?) it is not possible to render at the monitor
frame rate since there are two blocks occuring in the loop?
Simon Gibbs
GMD
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