Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: Thread-private mappings and graphics (was Re: Per-Processor Data Page) | Date | Sun, 19 Dec 1999 22:45:08 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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James Simmons <jsimmons@edgeglobal.com> said: > > I'd very much prefer to excercise my freedom on writing new applications, > > or supporting a lot of applications in one sweep by working on a driver > > type module than by hacking up applications individually so they work with > > the next graphics card.
> > Comming up with a clever design for doing this cleanly is what hacking is > > all about, IMHV.
> To you that's true but to others this is not. Note their do exist other > graphics libraries.
Yes, and their point is to be used by _several_ applications, not just one. And I didn't say anything of doing things exactly one way only. -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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