Re: [Render] RENDER ext. hardware acceleration, libart integration

2002-08-21 Thread Thomas Roell
In your message of 15 August 2002 you write: The second is that when compositing images with window contents, placing the compositing software right next to the frame buffer means that only the pixels which are translucent in the source image need be read from the frame buffer. Actually

[Render] PostScript-like rendering API

2002-08-21 Thread Eric Christopherson
Hi, Keith et al. I was just wondering if there's more information on the PostScript-like extensions; I wasn't able to find much on the web other than the fact that they're being worked on, and I joined this list to find out, but since I joined no one's discussed it. Specifically, I was wondering

Re: [Render] RENDER ext. hardware acceleration, libart integration

2002-08-21 Thread Keith Packard
Around 14 o'clock on Aug 21, Peter Kaczowka wrote: I guess that's true for reads, but my experience is that quadword writes are faster to some PCI devices. Yeah, if you have 64-bit PCI. With write-combining turned on, a 32-bit PCI or AGP bus is best written 32 bits at a time. The current

Re: [Render] PostScript-like rendering API

2002-08-21 Thread Keith Packard
Around 23 o'clock on Aug 21, Eric Christopherson wrote: Hi, Keith et al. I was just wondering if there's more information on the PostScript-like extensions; I wasn't able to find much on the web other than the fact that they're being worked on, and I joined this list to find out, but since