nanogui: Re: [linuxce-devel] Re: Microwindows/Nano-X version 0.87pre1 rele
Subject:
Re: [linuxce-devel] Re: Microwindows/Nano-X version 0.87pre1 rele
From:
Alan Cox ####@####.####
Date:
2 Dec 1999 17:12:35 -0000
Message-Id: <E11tZgE-00015z-00@the-village.bc.nu>
> a 24 bit malloc (I know, huge) in the case that everything is running
> on Linux for speed. One trick, used by Xlib, is to split any Copy/Read/Area
> large rectangle into smaller rectangles and make smaller requests for
> each. Perhaps we should go that route. How big should nanogui think
> a large buffer is? Whatever is sent by the server handshake?
For some stuff - embedded boxes, linux 8086 then yes using smaller chunks
might be a good idea. On Linux8086 512 bytes is a lot of data, on embedded
boxes 32K might be a 'lot'
Alan