code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug]

[Roland Mainz]

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 07:49 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > Z Smith wrote:
> > >Or join me in my effort to limit bloat. Why use an X server
> > >that uses 15-30 megs of RAM when you can use FBUI which is 25 kilobytes
> > >of code with very minimal kmallocing?
> >
> > FBUI does not have 3d acceleration?
> 
> Um I don't think chucking X is the answer.  The problem is that it's
> embarassingly slow compared to any modern GUI.  If the display were as
> snappy as WinXP I don't care if it's 200MB.  On my desktop I constantly
> see windows redrawing every freaking widget in situations where XP would
> just blit from an offscreen buffer or something.

That sounds more like that backing-store is turned off in your
Xserver... ;-/

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Roland

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