[PATCH] window: Don't needlessly sync parent and geometry

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On 13 September 2014 15:35, Ondřej Majerech <majerech.o at gmail.com> wrote:

> When a toytoolkit client redraws, the toolkit syncs the parent and
> geometry. If a client redraws often (such as the terminal drawing a huge
> amount of output), this can spam the compositor with requests and may
> result in the client's eventual being killed.
>
> We don't need to send requests for changing the geometry or parent if
> these haven't changed. So remember the last geometry and parent, and
> update them only if needed.
>

It looked from weston-terminal output like these happened completely
unbounded by the frame callback; should these instead be moved somewhere
where the requests are only issued once per frame, regardless of how many
times they change in between?

Cheers,
Daniel
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