What's wrong with backing store?

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

But backing store works NOW. Composite don't.

lør, 09.10.2004 kl. 00.03 skrev Havoc Pennington:
> On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 14:59 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 14:47 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > > Imagine a 10,000 item list that is 150,000 pixels by 1000 pixels - 
> > > e.g., 450 megs of memory. 
> > 
> > Apple uses backing store compression in 10.2 and later.  Why could that
> > not be used in X?
> > 
> 
> It could, but the new COMPOSITE etc. work will make the old backing
> store feature obsolete anyhow.
> 
> Havoc
>