On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 18:11 +0000, Brian Nitz wrote:
> I was thinking about when you might want use this. Let's say you're
> inside a tight loop in an applet or gdesklet and you want to check if
> anyone is watching before you do the last bit of graphics scaling, 3D
> blending, shading and anti-aliasing before updating the screen every 50
> microseconds ;-) Which would be faster, asking the galaga service to
> ask if I'm here or check a presence gconf key (presumably set by galaga)?
Galago maintains presence in memory in the daemon, so they'd both be
about the same speed as they both involve an IPC call.
Ross
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