Re: [PATCH] GSoC #07 VBE double buffering (vs r1885)

[Colin D Bennett <colin@gibibit.com>]

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On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:48:15 -0700
Colin D Bennett <colin@gibibit.com> wrote:

> I *am* interested in getting high performance, but
> (1) I simply don't have time to do it myself right now, and 
> (2) gfxmenu seems plenty fast to me--I have run Lua-driven full screen
> animations as a desktop background for gfxmenu, and it worked
> fantastically. The menu system performs decently even on my
> ultra-low-power-but-low-performance-too Via C3 system.

Another reason I did not implement dirty region repaint optimization
that I forgot to mention:

(3) Dirty region repaint handling does not help at all when most of the
screen is being updated on each frame.  Since I expect the "fancy menu"
to become more and more full of eye-candy (that is the purpose, after
all!), the dirty region handling would only help for the most vanilla
of themes.  I have said I will add some animation and special
effects to GRUB.  Things that I think would be cool (and cool => more
people drawn to use GRUB) include a fade-in/fade-out when GRUB
starts/executes an entry, a fully animated background of some sort (of
the type that many xscreensavers use), etc.

Regards,
Colin

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