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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:29:46 +0200
From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
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This is better, but maybe a heuristic could do even better (for example 
by tracking access to registers which map plans 2 and 3 ?).

Fabrice.

Piotr Krysik wrote:
> Update of font memory is now detected during 
> vga_draw_text. I also added time-to-live for 
> font cache to limit memory bandwidth required 
> for cache validation (overkill?).
> 
> Please review.
> 
> 
> Piotrek
> 
> --- Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>OK for the idea, but it is not acceptable to slow
>>down the VGA write functions just to detect the 
>>font change. Another solution must be found.
>>
>>Fabrice.