Comment on Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough

• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes. 2 kilobytes. Coincidentally, this is as big as the displays internal buffer, so I cannot even keep a shadow copy of it in my RAM for the GUI.

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  • Centaur@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for clarification.

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve never seen backbuffer called shadow copy.

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    • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And I have never heard it called “backbuffer”, so we are even.

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      • uis@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I guess so.

        Example: www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Default_Framebuffer#D…

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