Jeremy White wrote:
Reece Dunn wrote:
Also, doesn't CodeWeavers have the ability to pledge for features (such as DirectX) as well as specific applications?
Well, kinda sorta, but not really. It's on our todo list and has been for a long time.
I think Roderick summarized the issue from our perspective correctly. Everyone wishes it will be a magic bullet, so we all get excited about it.
From Massimo's report, his DIB engine looks like it fixes a few issues
on some games - like Age of Empires 2 - and has some speedups there. Not sure how much of a benefit this is going to be overall.
But in practice, it helps very few applications. Improving gdiplus (an easier task), we have found to have far more dramatic benefits.
I understand this approach. The DIB engine is not a trivial, or isolated piece of functionality, to develop.
There are some things I'd be interested in seeing: 1. how this affects double-buffering performance (which a lot of applications make use of, as well as the common controls), which uses DIBs to draw the data off-screen; 2. how this affects theme performance (the repainting of winecfg with the Gem theme is glacially slow); 3. whether this will support alpha blending (useful for themes that support it - such as is likely to be used to provide better integration look and feel - as well as the Wine icon refresh that was being looked at).
I wonder if there are any media players or video editing applications that would benefit?
Anyway, I'll hopefully get around to do some testing on the DIB engine at some point to test these out.
- Reece
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Reece Dunn