Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts

[Kyle Moffett]

On Jun 3, 2006, at 03:05:17, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Well, you can only miss a message *you would not see anyway*.
>
> There are some things that one can see but not read, and still be  
> recognizable even if your console is scrolling by.

You would not even be able to recongnize it; we're talking about  
displaying text faster than the refresh rate, as pavel mentioned  
earlier:

On Sat, 3 Jun 2006, Pavel Machek wrote:
> I'm not talking about reading speed, I'm talking about displaying  
> speed. Once you display more than refresh rate times screen size...  
> you may as well cheat -- xterm-like. If xterm detects too much  
> stuff is being displayed, it simply stops displaying it, only  
> refreshing screen few times a second...

On the other hand, making the text console much more efficient would  
save a some CPU for *other* processes, say the one that's outputting  
text at such a high rate of speed, so it's probably worth it if it's  
not too hard.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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