Re: [9fans] vnc[vs] implementation question

[andrey mirtchovski <andrey@lanl.gov>]

> it's worth noting that vncs is what uses
> the stand-ins for devdraw etc.
>
> vncv doesn't.  vncv probably has good performance
> just because all it does is write blocks to the
> screen.  memmove to the screen is fast.

got it...  the trick (or rather, the problem with xaos) is that it
does
	loadimage(someimage, buffer, ...);
	draw(screen, someimage,...);

in vncv you (I assume) just do a
	loadimage(screen, buffer, ...);

in XaoS' case, unfortunately, one can't use this approach, because the
pixels are written by the program in CMAP8 format (and the image used
in loadimage(); is alloc-ed in CMAP8 too) and if the screen is
anything else loadimage(screen, ...); fails...

it'd be great to have routines that convert between format en masse
(similar to the ones in color(2)), but that's just as expensive as
doing a loadimage();draw() combination.

or maybe there's a trick to it?