On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:25:04AM +0200, Jens Nyberg wrote: > I have never tried rio but if I were to design one today I would have a > simple synthetic filesystem that for each window multiplexes the > framebuffer which is basically how rio works I assume. For maximum > performance each instance would write its content directly to the > framebuffer in a linear fashion keeping track of its own width and height > constraints so it can not write outside its borders. This approach is > sufficient enough if you do not require compositions in software and would > be really fast and simple.
I'm thinking along very similar lines.