Direct rendered xlib

[Jim Gettys]

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 00:45, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Have you considered using the the Glitz render implementation to build a
> directly rendered version of xlib?
> 

Please, no.

There is no good reason to bother to make antiquity run faster,
increasing the long term support burden.

Now replacing the core graphics in the X server with something
based on more modern stuff, reducing the total amount of code
we maintain in the long term, that I could get interested in.

Even here, though, it isn't clear it is worth it; I'm not
sure you can get a semantic match, given the broken semantics
of wide lines/arcs in core graphics.
                       - Jim

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Jim Gettys <Jim.Gettys at hp.com>
HP Labs, Cambridge Research Laboratory