Re: W1r2 - great!

[Torsten Scherer <itschere@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>]

Chris Herborth writes:

> > Windows should be a bit faster after TeSche incorporates my dither
> > stuff to W1R2 (it's for W1R1, and I was to lazy to do the conversion
> > amyself <g>).

 And I lacked the time. But it'll come with the next release.

> Good!  Right now I can see it drawing each line of the fill in the
> window title bar even when my system isn't too loaded.

 That still holds for much faster systems like a Sparc2. :)

> > As all blocks go through a socket that's a bit slow. If running on
> > an ST, I prefer using my own ST-hirez mono IMG viewer. I use it mainly
> > for viewing GnuPlot output (there should be W diffs for GP somewhere
> > though...).

 The old gnuplot diffs I've once distributed won't work anymore. I'm
planning to do them again using the external gnuplot_x11 as a basis to
start from.

> Ah, but that's not a W program then, is it?  :-)  I'm going to try to
> modify the server and Wlib to use shared memory for speeding up images.
> We did that for our X, and our own GUI, Photon, and it made quite a
> difference even for local QNX message connections (way faster than
> sockets).
>
> Of course, this means delving into the guts and wrecking everything.

 I can try to explain you how the get/putblock stuff works if you like.

> :-)  Pity TeSche doesn't comment his code more!

 Well, who else does? ;)

 Honestly, a first step might be a better commented types.h so that you
know what all of these variables mean in reality. I've already started this
and the next release will contain a bit more comments.

> Does anyone know if the docs for shared memory under MiNT are
> up-to-date still?

 Suggestion has been to write SysV compatible wrapper routines around the
MiNT-SHM. I think this is the best idea. They might even go into the MiNTLib
later. Anyone want to do it? I've currently no MiNT running.

ciao,
TeSche