Re: TurboRez Info

[glyn@cs.UAlberta.CA (Reade Glyn Devin)]

In article <1993Mar30.021219.9640@nuscc.nus.sg>, ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean) writes:
> seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah) writes:

> : Hardware display list processing.
> 
> What is this?

When the current window (or screen) is redrawn, the computer needs some
way to determine which primitives it is supposed to be drawing.  This
is often done using a display list which is typically a (hierarchical or
flat) linked list of objects.

Having a hardware display list processor implies that the CPU is freed from
maintaining (adding to or deleting from) and traversing this list, thus
achieving a bit of parallellism.

--Devin Reade		glyn@cs.ualberta.ca