From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cairo branch. Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:06:54 +0200 Message-ID: <837fvm6gip.fsf@gnu.org> References: <54DB723D.5030303@swipnet.se> <54DCC037.7030202@swipnet.se> <83lhk35d69.fsf@gnu.org> <42DC973F-FE9F-4C77-9371-374C5A8F3A04@swipnet.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423771651 13269 80.91.229.3 (12 Feb 2015 20:07:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:07:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Jan D." Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 12 21:07:22 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YM02j-0006OG-ME for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 21:07:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51922 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YM02i-0007LU-MG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:07:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47504) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YM02T-0007KK-9i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:07:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YM02O-0006oP-SH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:07:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:63963) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YM02O-0006nt-KI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:07:00 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NJO00200CXPMZ00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:06:59 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NJO0028DD7MKI50@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:06:59 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <42DC973F-FE9F-4C77-9371-374C5A8F3A04@swipnet.se> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:182975 Archived-At: > From: "Jan D." > Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:17:34 +0100 > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Another interesting issue is whether we want to use Cairo on Windows > > as well, and eventually drop the w32-specific display back-end. > > You have to separate the event and system interaction from the rendering in w32, but also in the X backend so to have a pure resuable cairo rendering code base. Right now its all kind of mixed in. Not sure I'm following: could you elaborate about them being mixed? I seem to remember that they are separate, at least in w32. In particular, event input is in a separate thread, while drawing happens in the main thread, I think.