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> I discovered that direct drawing to the screen is slower because
> the screen is updated every time someting is drawn onto it. I think that
> we can use the acquire_screen / release_screen functions to tell the
> X-windows driver not to update the screen (acquire_screen = stop
> updating the screen, release_screen = update the screen and go back to
> usual behaviour).
That's exactly the way the DirectDraw windowed driver (and soon the GDI
driver) works.
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Eric Botcazou
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