[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Memory leak fixed, new version uploaded

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Tuomas Airaksinen wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 09:26:34PM +0100, Andreas Kemnade wrote:
> > Nathan Lovell writes:
> > I think the way to draw (pix/bit)-maps with masks (=Icons on windows)
> > is quite slow because gdk_gc_set_mask is quite complex and
> > slow.
> 
> Why does the same thing then work _very_ fast on linux?

I think you aren't understanding the problem.  Gdk is a blatant copy of
the X API for the most part.  Including this bit.  Other API's have
different primitives and/or bitmap size limits, etc.  This may make
implementing Gdk on those API's non-trivial (and make those s-l-o-w).

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa