From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 22:07:12 +0000

Re: Async mode and double buffering

Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Garrett B wrote:
> > Because when your drawing to the visual the visual will never
> > update until you call a ggiFlush() right?

Wrong, see Andys reply.

> > Im only running GGI on X right now so
> > Im not sure about other targets.
> 
>         With X you will need to use double buffering.  Actually you really
> should always use double buffering so that targets which support hardware
> pageflipping can be taken advantage of.

On the X target the only effect of double buffering is that you
waste twice as much memory. That's why nice apps have double
buffering as an option which can be turned off.

//Marcus
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