[PATCH] EXA: Try to prevent the valid regions from growing too many rects.

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Sat Feb 14 09:06:29 PST 2009


On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 17:59 +0100, Maarten Maathuis wrote:
> Maybe remove the smallest rects, but i think i get your point. It just
> seemed odd at first, now i see you're just using a convient area to
> remove.

Right, we can only drop rects which are also in the other valid region,
or we lose their contents.

So is it okay to push? I don't expect these heuristics to be the final
solution, but they do help in some cases, see e.g.
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16647 .


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