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Re:Show HN: A Native Tiling Window Manager for Windows 10, I... by mcyoloswagham on Sunday February 28, 2021 @04:58PM (#26297485)
damn that's very interesting, due to certain performance issues on very old hardware, I was debating writing a driver for win32k, make it work faster, like I mean 1-5ms render times, but it was too much of a mess. DWM & Win32k are very complicated
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Re:Show HN: A Native Tiling Window Manager for Windows 10, I... by ianhanschen on Sunday February 28, 2021 @05:22PM (#26297677)
Before coming to Microsoft, I wrote my own EngAlphaBlend() accelerator driver in 2003 or so. I knew a lot about how things worked from disassembly but after coming to MS in 2004 I quickly destroyed a lot of my own assumptions. Mess? no. Complicated? yes.
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Re:Show HN: A Native Tiling Window Manager for Windows 10, I... by mcyoloswagham on Sunday February 28, 2021 @05:26PM (#26297698)
well I mean it was too much of a mess in my own work, I know a bit about win32k, but trying to deal with all the xxx, yyy,zzz functions and the locks and everything kinda confused me, and so I gave up. :(
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