On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Felix Nawothnig wrote:
Dimi Paun wrote:
Direct memory access can be done using X11 SHM, no?
But then you lose network transparency.
I'd think that apps directly accessing the surface memory are either games or
do some other kind of realtime graphics so network transparency isn't worth
anything there (since we'd have to transfer the whole DIB all the time
anyway).
I don't remember any names off-hand but I am very sure that I have
encountered 'office-style' applications that alternated direct access to
the DIB with 'gdi' accesses to it. So yes, preserving network
transparency is very much worth it.
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