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Re:Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story? by stormking on Saturday December 23, 2023 @03:27AM (#38742587)
That's called double-buffering.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story? by givemeethekeys on Saturday December 23, 2023 @03:57AM (#38742711)
They invented double-buffering! :)
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Re:Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story? by hutzlibu on Saturday December 23, 2023 @04:34AM (#38742886)
I think it was meant as a joke, so for anyone else reading it, no it is not actually double-buffering.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story? by stormking on Saturday December 23, 2023 @05:35AM (#38743162)
Half a joke, because the concept is very much the same. You "paint" to an invisible buffer and then you swap.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story? by hutzlibu on Saturday December 23, 2023 @05:43AM (#38743196)
Yeah, but the concept of double buffering is to swap every frame, for performance gains.

Here nothing gets swapped, and just temporary the screen gets hidden. So vaguely similar ... but not very much the same in my opinion.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story? by mycall on Saturday December 23, 2023 @10:05AM (#38744694)
freeze-frame buffering
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Re:Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story? by 3836293648 on Sunday December 24, 2023 @06:55AM (#38752913)
Performance gains is kinda iffy. You actively hurt latency for the sake of consistency. Even more with triple buffering.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story? by thebruce87m on Saturday December 23, 2023 @04:37AM (#38742901)
double-bluffering?
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