On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Sam Watkins <s...@nipl.net> wrote: > 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. >
FWIW may be it would make more sense to install Plan 9 (9front) then? -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
