[screenweaver] Impressions of using SW with Xray

[Edwin van Rijkom]

john grden wrote:

> Man, i've really been happy with the performance so far in using the 
> SW version of Xray.
>
> 1.  After leaving Xray open all night, coming back, there's wasn't a 
> huge disk swap/reclaim of memory when I clicked on the dropdown or 
> switched tabs.  Every time I leave the zinc version open like that, it 
> takes a while to reclaim the memory and get its act together.  I came 
> in this morning and everything was as responsive (from what I could 
> tell) as when I went to bed last night.  Which makes John a happy coder.

That makes Edwin a very happy coder too :) A word of warning though: 
it's possible there's still some leaking going on with the IO. A good 
test would be running SW with a Flash movie that sends an a-sync request 
every one or two seconds, that receives some data in its callback. If 
that runs overnight without memory usage going thru the roof that I'd be 
an even more happy coder.

>
> So, with that, I'm going to go ahead and make a full SW version and 
> put in the hooks for resizing the stage etc and also convert my FLV 
> player over to see how that does (http://labs.blitzagency.com/?p=74)

That's great! Would be nice to setup a Wiki page on 'Screenweaver 
Powered Applications' (where's the Documentalist? :)

> can't WAIT to get to the crossplatform stuff and get off of zinc.

Lots and lots of stuff needs to be done before we'll be able to realize 
x-platform capabilities. But I'm sure that we'll get there. How long it 
will take depends mainly on how many C++ programmers will get involved.

Cheers,
Edwin