Re: Emacs, QT and Cairo

[Chad Brown]

On Jul 13, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Jan Djärv wrote:
> You would have to have a proper Cairo implementation of Emacs redisplay 
> before that can be useful.  There was a patch for it here once.

It would be interesting to see an analysis of emacs' redisplay needs in light 
of modern cpu/gpu/network usage, or even a list of needs for emacs' redisplay 
priorities.  I recall the 18->19->20 discussions vaguely, but I'm willing to 
wager that there are far fewer people using x-terminals over 14.4k modem lines 
these days.  :-)

A `truly excellent' effort in this space would almost certainly require a huge 
amount of work from at least one of the already generous/overburdened 
developers who truly understands the redisplay internals, and I would be 
surprised to hear that any such feels that they have the free time to devote to 
such a blue-sky project.  I do wonder if anyone has concrete suggestions for a 
starting point for some of us `younger' people, though.

Thanks in advance,
*Chad