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Not necessarily the environment, but compositor itself must be fast. It shouldn't introduce any delays that would affect for instance input latency in its proce
by shmerl 1y ago
Not necessarily the environment, but compositor itself must be fast. It shouldn't introduce any delays that would affect for instance input latency in its processing loop. Gamers would for sure complain.
Someone could totally make it do everything in a single thread and not think about that, which would be pretty bad.
- winrid 1y agoThat doesn't require multi threading.
- shmerl 1y agoIf it does almost nothing - may be not. Otherwise you'll be doing something in the main thread which will take time, unless you also squeeze concurrency (i.e. multitasking) into one thread and then again, why not use multiple threads already.
- nasretdinov 1y agoOn a high enough resolution, especially with 5K-6K displays a single-threaded software-only compositor is absolutely going to have horrible performance. Even on Full HD it's actually quite noticeable