About 3 months. Its usable about now, the spec is as good as set in stone.
> >Existing hardware on all Linux supported platforms barring SGI. Nobody
> >else has hardware video contexts.
> How long until 3D Labs and E&S catch up? Assuming they haven't already.
I was under the impression that if they do SGI sue them for patent violations
actually. The closest PC equivalent I can figure is secondary surfaces on the
few cards that do it usably.
> >So the PC case is always going to be
> >2 (not 3) times as bad - I can compute in my mitshm object thanks
> Not without making sourcing the data from shared memory an API requirement.
> Or dynamically checking on every API entry whether the data come from
> mitshm. Bleh.
It makes it messier yes, but any bang the metal api will be foul
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