Hi, > The most practical first step would be simply sending the ppm over a > socket from ppm_save(). The 'screendump' command today already blocks > so no new badness is being added. There would be no threads or fancy > image encoding.
Adding scaling / compression support will add more overhead though, so doing that without offloading screendump to a thread first is a bad idea I think. Or at least have some numbers to see how bad it actually is. cheers, Gerd
