[Spice-devel] [announce] alpha glib/gtk client library + app.

[Yaniv Kaul]

  On 9/30/2010 11:00 PM, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 22:22 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>>> If this is the plan we need to ensure that
>>>> the APIs and implementations are not tied to tightly to unix.
>>> I have some X11 MIT-SHM bits in there for performance reasons, that
>>> needs to be #ifdef'ed and have a alternative (generic cairo/pixman
>>> based?) implementation for !x11 platforms. Other that that there should
>>> be nothing major. glib helps alot here.
>> Oh, and while talking about windows:  The windows client has the gdi
>> renderer, how does that compare to the sw one performance-wise?
> I don't actually know. I guess its hardware accelerated. On the other
> hand, the operations spice does are hardly expensive on todays cpus.
> Maybe its better to drop it in favour of a consistant behaviour and less
> code to maintain. Needs some profiling though.

Don't forget thin clients. They hardly kept up with Spice in the past.
Y.

> Actually i think all GDI stuff is software only in vista, but i think
> they added back some acceleration in win7.
>