Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets

[Richard Stallman]

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>    > do believe if Elisp
>    > via Emacs let one do some cool visual stuff, like programming some
>    > graphics, and doing drawing in the editor would make it more useful and
>    > more efficient. Also I see it as a one brick in making Emacs more
>    > popular. I personally think it would be super cool to see Emacs do 3D
>    > with Elisp,

  > > Would this be a feature that works acceptably fast
  > > only if there is nonfree software in your system load?

  > Like I described, modern Intel GPUs are reasonable fast at OpenGL 
  > already.

In the Free World, we don't get the modern Intel GPUs.  The computers we can 
use -- because we can turn off the Management Engine -- are the X200 and T400.

Would this feature run fast enough on them?

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Dr Richard Stallman
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