nanogui: NanoX version 0.3 released
Subject:
RE: NanoX version 0.3 released
From:
Greg Haerr ####@####.####
Date:
12 May 1999 16:02:14 -0000
Message-Id: <01BE9C5D.22B918C0.greg@censoft.com>
Like I mentioned before, all this code is completely contained in one device-dependent
screen driver file, at the lowest level of the nanogui engine. So, a custom driver
can be created that does exactly what you want, with no change to nanogui.
Greg
On Wednesday, May 12, 1999 5:46 AM, Vidar Hokstad ####@####.#### wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > Consider supporting more than one font pr. file, and mmap()'ing the file
> > > instead of allocating memory for it, and reading it in. For those of us
> >
> > But the font is in the server.
>
> Now it is, but Greg mentioned that Ben is adding support for loading extra
> fonts.
>
> > > most other things too: the more cases where mmap() can be used over
> > > malloc()'ing some memory and reading in a file, the better it will
> > > generally be for the minimum required memory footprint.
> >
> > The only thing to watch there is that mmap isnt available on all platforms
> > (eg Linux 8086)
>
> I know, but in that case we could just malloc() a memory section, and read
> the file into it. Of course neither would be good alternatives if you
> store fonts in a format that require processing when you read it in, but
> the format BOGL uses now is easy to modify so that isn't necessary.
>
> Regards,
> Vidar
>
>
