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Scrolling down on web pages in the 90s made of tiny repeating textures and watching the renderer struggle to keep up with painting has instilled a deep fear of
by Lucent 7y ago
Scrolling down on web pages in the 90s made of tiny repeating textures and watching the renderer struggle to keep up with painting has instilled a deep fear of using extremely small images in tiling. What an icky feeling to find out your desktop may have some off-the-charts polygon count for its plain black background.
- Kwpolska 7y agoI would expect the OS to just scale the image to screen size once when it boots (or whatever) and cache that image.
- colejohnson66 7y agoThe neighboring comment is dead, but that is basically what Windows does IIRC. When you set it, it prerenders the image at the screen resolution and caches it.