Re: [LAD] the future of display/drawing models (Was: Re: [ANN] IR: LV2 Convolution Reverb)

2011-02-23 Thread Dominique Michel
Le Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:11:27 +, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org a écrit : 2) more and more apps able to take advantage of v-blank sync to reduce computational load due to unnecessary redraws. instead, the whole system will be a lot like a video-framebuffer version of JACK: the

Re: [LAD] the future of display/drawing models (Was: Re: [ANN] IR: LV2 Convolution Reverb)

2011-02-23 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:47:33PM +0100, Dominique Michel wrote: In the Amiga, the video card was vectorial, to change one pixel, all that was needed was the new pixel value and its x y coordinates. That is still the case with even the most simple display hardware today. To change a part

Re: [LAD] the future of display/drawing models (Was: Re: [ANN] IR: LV2 Convolution Reverb)

2011-02-23 Thread David Olofson
On Wednesday 23 February 2011, at 23.47.33, Dominique Michel dominique.mic...@vtxnet.ch wrote: [...] Another problem is the hardware. All the PC video cards are video driven. That imply than the card have to refresh the whole screen in order to change one pixel. That is not old technology,

Re: [LAD] the future of display/drawing models (Was: Re: [ANN] IR: LV2 Convolution Reverb)

2011-02-23 Thread Loki Davison
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:24 PM, David Olofson da...@olofson.net wrote: I don't see how one could realistically design anything that'll come close to a down-clocked low end 3D accelerator in power efficiency. What are you going to remove, or implement more efficiently...? Also, 3D

[LAD] the future of display/drawing models (Was: Re: [ANN] IR: LV2 Convolution Reverb)

2011-02-22 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Philipp Überbacher hollun...@lavabit.com wrote: The rest sounds nice, and it might well be that X has become old, but I don't see the big improvement coming up. Windows are called surfaces now, can have different shapes and are more flexible, compositing,

Re: [LAD] the future of display/drawing models (Was: Re: [ANN] IR: LV2 Convolution Reverb)

2011-02-22 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 04:38:05PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: what its going to do,i think, is two-fold: 1) promote more and more toolkit design that makes everything just a compositing stack. GTK has already moved significantly in this direction, but could go a lot further. Makes

Re: [LAD] the future of display/drawing models (Was: Re: [ANN] IR: LV2 Convolution Reverb)

2011-02-22 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 04:38:05PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: what its going to do,i think, is two-fold: 1) promote more and more toolkit design that makes everything just a compositing stack. GTK has already moved