Linux 2000 UK Linux Developers' Conference Linux for the Enterprise 7 - 9 July 2000, Hammersmith (West London)

Carsten 'Rasterman' Haitzler

Performance Programming for X

Hints and tips for writing fast and good looking programs for X:

• using Pixmaps to accelerate redraws
• how to do translucency and transparency
• how modern hardware and XFree 4.0 change the way you can write applications to be faster and cleaner

Assumed is a basic knowledge of Xlib and client-server architecture and basic graphcis drawing and clipping algorithms - this talk is intended for people wanting to learn Xlib or who are fairly new to writing programs for X.

Carsten Haitzler is a senior software engineer with VA Linux systems in Sunnyvale, California.

Educated at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, his programs include Enlightenment, Electric Eyes, Gtk theme engines, Imlib, Imlib 2 and Epplets, several of which are still ongoing projects. Carsten has also worked for Red Hat software, and contributed several graphics libraries to Linux.

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