From: Thomas Tanner <tanner@gmx.de>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:27:14 +0100

Re: The battles.

Morten Rolland wrote:
> Wouldn't this be at the expence of sequencing or fragmentation?  If
> you had a program doing:
> 
>   1) Fill-Rectangle   (to paint the background black or something)
>   2) put-some-image   (to draw something)
>   3) Draw-Line(s)     (to make a nice border)
> 
> If (2) is not available as an (emulated) accel in the kernel, you have
> to
> break up the accel list into two ioctls - with a userland
> "put-some-image"
> performed in the middle?

 Yep. But you could collect non-overlapping accel commands
 and send them together.

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