On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Brian S. Julin wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, [iso-8859-1] Rubén wrote:
>
> > On 1999/Oct/22, Niklas Höglund wrote:
> > > It'd be even better to increase a value every vblank so applications
> > > can find out if it has missed any frames, and also to make sure
> > > applications don't redraw more than once per frame.
> >
> > I'm not agree, applications doesn't have to use the same refresh
> > than the monitor. Your monitor can be refreshing at 100 Hz, and 50 frames
> > per second is more than enough to see an animation smooth.
> > And if you do this, some people would synchronize the applications
> > in infinite loops testing this number, instead of using alarms (the right
> > method, IMHO).
>
> I think an incrementing number is more flexible and leaves the
> application programmer more leeway.
I see no reason why we could not have both. And we _should_ have
both, since lots of hardware supports both. We have not yet even filled
up one 4K intel page with context info yet.
Jon
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