text and compositing

Torgeir Veimo torgeir at pobox.com
Tue Apr 27 20:23:08 EST 2004


On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 23:40, Keith Packard wrote:

> In the Render extension model, all glyphs are rasterized by the client and 
> transmitted as bitmaps.  The X server shares these bitmaps among multiple 
> applications (yes, by brute-force comparison of the images).

Isn't a faster hash key compare used for the initial compare?

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Torgeir Veimo <torgeir at pobox.com>




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