[ILUG] X11: MIT shared mem extensions

[Caolan McNamara]

On 21-Jun-99 Lars Hecking wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone ever ever used the MIT shared memory extensions? I came
> across libXext(XShmAttach) in the WindowMaker sources while checking
> out SysV IPC, but found no documentation or man page.
>
>

Yeah i played with it a tiny bit, jwz (of mozilla fame) has a little wrapper
for it that makes it usage a good bit easier, i've a simple sample usage in a
patch for bomb at
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/publink/bomb/

the original manpage is at 
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/R6.4/xc/doc/specs/Xext/mit-shm.ms

to be honest i really didn't notice that much of a speed improvement, but for 
the sake of completeness i supported it.

C.

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