Re: redisplay system of emacs

[alin.s]

OK,

Let us keep as good Emacs' method. But let us clarify somehow in the least
details ! 




Miles Bader-2 wrote:
> 
> Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
>> ?? Of course Mozilla supports these kind of things too.
> 
> Note that mozilla's display engine makes some dramatically different
> assumptions about what is important for the display engine to do.
> 
> Most importantly, it does the layout and display calculation for the
> _entire page_ at once.  Emacs, by contrast does it on the fly for the
> small amount being displayed at the moment.
> 
> Mozilla's method allows some nice things -- for instance it makes much
> more complicated layout tractable -- but it really really sucks for huge
> files, and in general probably isn't such a good idea if the document
> tends to change a lot in real time.  Emacs' method, by contrast works
> really well for those cases.
> 
> I think this difference in approach makes sense given the different
> goals of the two applications, and it's not at all clear that Mozilla's
> display engine would work well for Emacs too.
> 
> Of course, you could try it and see.... :|
> 
> -miles
> 
> -- 
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> when
> things go wrong in the domestic circle.
> 
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> 
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