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

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Sat Nov 20 12:32:58 PST 2004


On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 13:00 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> Backing store and XAA are mutually exclusive.  If you do an XAA-accelerated 
> operation to a region with a backing store, then you invalidate the backing 
> store.  Woops.

Thanks, I enabled backing store and it seems a little snappier.  Is the
incompatibility with XAA the reason it is disabled by default?  I
googled and could not find a lot of info on this.

I had XAA disabled anyway due to an issue with the Unichrome driver, so
this is a win.

Lee




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