What's wrong with backing store?
Havoc Pennington
hp at redhat.com
Fri Oct 8 22:03:01 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 14:59 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 14:47 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > Imagine a 10,000 item list that is 150,000 pixels by 1000 pixels -
> > e.g., 450 megs of memory.
>
> Apple uses backing store compression in 10.2 and later. Why could that
> not be used in X?
>
It could, but the new COMPOSITE etc. work will make the old backing
store feature obsolete anyhow.
Havoc
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