GetScratchPixmapHeader / FreeScratchPixmapHeader

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Wed Dec 21 21:24:25 UTC 2022


Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu at freedesktop.org> writes:

> Is there any real benefit to maintaining this released pixmap for
> future re-use on modern hardware?  It seems like it's a bunch of code
> complexity without much benefit.  I'm happy to nuke it completely
> unless there are objections...

Seems reasonable -- it's just a CPU time optimization that probably
doesn't matter much anymore. It is often used for PutImage, but that
probably has enough overhead elsewhere to swamp malloc/free costs.

-- 
-keith
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