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Re: [MiNT] fVDI issues



Hello!

> I hope you'll talk to those of us who are involved in writing VDIs and
> AESes before deciding on something overly general?

I don't have a concrete implementation in mind yet but performance is for
sure one goal :-)

> For example, something like vsl_color is about a dozen instructions
> of actual work in fVDI. Even with a minimal VDI dispatcher, there are
> already two dozen instructions of 'overhead' on top of that (saving
> only two registers on the stack).

Entering the kernel is an expensive operation, also for routines that just
consist of one line (getpid and these things).

> What you call 'process specific management data' sounds exactly like
> what I want.

Yes, that's the idea behind :-)


Ciao
   ...Frank

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