Re: [9fans] plan9port: cocoa programmer needed

[hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com>]

Can you guys perhaps create a small video about how you use your
computers now? It's difficult to understand for someone who doesn't
own a mac, but I would still like to see what you're doing there ;)

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 18:40, david jeannot <djeannot24@gmail.com> wrote:
>> One issue I did not w/ acme: screen redraw is
>> significantly slower than the Carbon version.
>> Test by starting win in acme and doing something
>> that creates a long listing (netstat, ps,...).
>> Not a big issue as this can be fixed later.
>
> Yes, it was very painful, but the new version is
> very responsive.  (The only way I had found to
> deal with "live resizing" compelled Devdraw to
> swap the back buffer and the front buffer each
> time plan9 was flushing rectangles to the back
> buffer, and dreadful was the latency.)
>
> Just after my "I will be late" announcement, Russ
> advised me to publish all the same what I had,
> because Carbon's Devdraw apparently also stopped
> working on Snow Leopard with the latest Xcode.  I
> was in the middle of "live resizing" madness, and
> my code was very experimental, but I forgot to
> mention it on 9fans.
>
>
> Sent from my gesture-enhanced Acme.
>
>