From: peter@transvirtual.com
Date: Wed Jan 06 1999 - 20:06:29 EST
On Thu, 07 Jan 1999, Godmar Back wrote:
>So, would it be fair to summarize your statement that the toolkit
>approach is a good one for an awt that a) requires synchronization and
>b) must map many of its structure to native data structure of the
>underlying system?
Correct.
>An Xproto approach, on the other hand, would
>neither require a) nor b) and would hence benefit from a more streamlined
>interface? Such an interface would probably also require rewriting some
>of the methods that invoke toolkit methods.
It needs sync, too (would do that at least via the output streams), since X
needs it. And I don't see that we could get rid of all natives (images etc.).
We probably would eat up any speed benefit we get for simple things like
drawLine in other places (images). In order to get more speed (if any), it
would require a lot of changes.
-- Peter
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