[Xcb] Interning multiple atoms w/ one function call (alla XInternAtoms)

[Jamey Sharp]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 12:04 -0700, Carl Worth wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 10:32:03 -0700, Barton C Massey wrote:
> > It should go in somewhere.  If it's a performance
> > optimization, it should go in libXCBAtom.  If it just
> > effectively calls XInternAtom a bunch of times, it should go
> > in libXCBAux.
> 
> Isn't XInternAtoms one of the things that is an essential
> round-trip-killing lifesaver for Xlib, but would just be a trivial
> wrapper for XCB ?
> 
> That is, the one-function-call nature of XInternAtoms isn't the
> significant bit, but rather its one-round-trip nature. But doesn't
> XCB's atom code allow the round-trip latency to be completely hidden
> even with lots of individual function calls/requests to intern each
> atom?
> 
> The wrapper would obviously be useful for aiding porting of code of
> course.

Yup, all that is exactly right. Actually given the simplicity of writing
one for-loop to issue all the InternAtom requests, and then another to
get all the replies, it's not obvious to me that a new function is a win
here, even for porters.

That said, I implemented exactly the function being asked for in the old
XCL source; somebody could check it out of the xcl module in CVS if they
wanted to.

--Jamey
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