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Re: MAME input "flickering"
07/22/15 09:27 PM


> I take from your statement that it must be a heart-breaking view to watch Nancy
> Kerrigan (HTF is Nancy Kerrigan) cry.

It's a very old Cartman line from South Park.

> I agree that the current MT code in osd is sub-optimal. The proper way would be that
> the mame-core would be executed in it's own thread and deliver frames to the
> main-thread via some queue. That would eliminate all the issues we currently have
> with MT. It's really not the MT code, it's the design.

It seems like all we'd need to be able to do that is for the core to allocate the display list and its attachments each frame and make OSD responsible for freeing them, instead of assuming OSD has consumed them when it returns from the submit call.







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Subject Posted by Posted on
* MAME input "flickering" Procyon 07/01/15 05:14 AM
. * Re: MAME input "flickering" Comboman  07/02/15 02:29 PM
. * Re: MAME input "flickering" R. Belmont  07/01/15 05:25 PM
. * Re: MAME input "flickering" Procyon  07/01/15 06:38 PM
. * Re: MAME input "flickering" R. Belmont  07/01/15 07:30 PM
. * Re: MAME input "flickering" Procyon  07/08/15 01:35 AM
. * Re: MAME input "flickering" R. Belmont  07/08/15 07:56 PM
. * Re: MAME input "flickering" Procyon  07/13/15 03:34 PM
. * Re: MAME input "flickering" R. Belmont  07/13/15 07:26 PM
. * Re: MAME input "flickering" Procyon  07/19/15 11:42 PM
. * Re: MAME input "flickering" R. Belmont  07/21/15 05:22 PM
. * Re: MAME input "flickering" couriersud  07/22/15 07:29 PM
. * Re: MAME input "flickering" R. Belmont  07/22/15 09:27 PM
. * Re: MAME input "flickering" couriersud  07/22/15 11:10 PM
. * Re: MAME input "flickering" Calamity  07/23/15 11:35 AM
. * Re: MAME input "flickering" couriersud  07/23/15 10:05 PM
. * Re: MAME input "flickering" B2K24  07/21/15 09:22 PM
. * Re: MAME input "flickering" TafoidAdministrator  07/19/15 11:45 PM
. * Re: MAME input "flickering" Procyon  07/02/15 04:24 AM

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