From: Linus T. <tor...@tr...> - 2002-06-17 21:18:08
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On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Allen Akin wrote: > > Two is that OpenGL semantics make it *very* expensive to move rendering > responsibility from the client to the X server or back Note that this was definitely not part of the plan as far as I was concerned. It's insanity trying to move rendering around, regardless of any OpenGL or GLX implementation details - it would just force people to be ridiculously careful about how to maintain state in a "movable" manner. That's just crazy, please don't think I ever meant that. I was hoping that once you started hw rendering, you had no reason to ever stop. That seems to be true today, but not in the world Keith envisions.. Linus |