On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Rodolphe Ortalo wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Jos Hulzink wrote: > > > And, let's face it: For which programs would a background framebuffer be > > useful and worth the trouble ? For programs that can't refresh within > > #include <fuzzylogic.h> GGI_SMALL_AMOUNT_OF_TIME. > > I'd rather say "the impatient user". :-) I really like the idea of > Andreas: let the application take its time to handle a switch, until the > user hits a second time on the vt switch keys... Smart applications > will display "Bookkeeping, pleeeaaaase, give me 1 second..." :-)
As I stated before: I don't know what is slower: a program that has to redraw its screen or a kernel that is constantly swapping for it is out of main memory. Personally I'm more irritated by the fact my performance went down the drain for the kernel found the swap space, than by the fact I got to wait a sec after a console switch. Jos
