Re: dri triple buffering?

[Alan C. <al...@lx...>]

On Iau, 2004-11-18 at 23:22, Ian Romanick wrote:
> The problem with that is the X-server will have to render everything 3 
> times.  That's going to suck.  You'll have some of the same problems 
> that Jacek had with his stereo patch.

No the X server needs to render everything (expensive bit) _once_. It
needs to blit it to the other surfaces (cheap) once per surface.

Thats a very important distinction. Especially as the shadowfb code just
happens to include all the needed rectangle list stuff...

Alan