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On Monday 02 January 2006 04:01, Chris wrote:
> Personally, I don't think the X driver should take a virtual screen size
at
> all. It's a hack, and is just implemented using an extra-large memory
bitmap
> and offsetting the operations (which incurs an overhead cost for writing
to
> "off-screen" areas, to offset and clip the drawing ops before sending to
X).
You'll be glad to hear then that I (implicitly) removed the virtual screen
hack for the X11 driver in 4.3 a while back. The entire way of doing
virtual screens and multiple display pages simply doesn't work very nicely
with the current API.
Since the new API (can) also deal with double/triple buffering for you,
there isn't as much need for the old way of doing multiple display pages.
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