Re: [Alephmodular-devel] MacOS X 10.1 users?

[Woody Z. I. <woo...@sb...>]

On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 08:17  PM, Woody Zenfell, III wrote:

> Aha, so when AM is busy horking the processor continuously in hi-res 
> mode for its rendering, the system hardly ever gets to step in and blit 
> results to the screen.  (Does lo-res drawing somehow bypass this 
> mechanism?  It seems to not suffer from this restriction, and also 
> tends to "tear", both of which suggest that it might?)

From: "Br'fin" <br...@ma...>
Date: Mon Jan 20, 2003  05:04:30  PM US/Central

> I think I found part of why low-resolution mode is so speedy. I was 
> preparing a build for the a 0.3 preview release. And I happened to have 
> it compiling then running in the background. Well it's running, I have 
> low-resolution turned on, and suddenly it starts overwriting my 
> foreground windows when AM kicks into demo mode.
>
> Apparently the low-res code doesn't do a copy from back buffer to 
> foreground window, it's setup to copy directly to the *screen*

Glad an explanation materialized.  But you're right, AM should do things 
"by the rules".

Woody