#4576 BLOC Update.: taking a screenshot in joyride takes much longer than before

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#4576: taking a screenshot in joyride takes much longer than before
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  Reporter:  tomeu            |       Owner:  bernie   
      Type:  defect           |      Status:  new      
  Priority:  blocker          |   Milestone:  Update.1 
 Component:  x window system  |     Version:           
Resolution:                   |    Keywords:  update.1?
  Verified:  0                |  
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Changes (by tomeu):

 * cc: marco (added)


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:10 bernie]:
 > "xwd -root" takes 0.17s on X 1.4, including dumping the image to
 /dev/null.
 >
 > This is the best we can get to if we go though direct Xlib calls.

 So, you suggest replicating what xwd does using ctypes to call xlib? We
 cannot use pygtk for that and get good enough performance?

 I guess we don't know yet what changed from 406.15?

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