[vlc-devel] Display update/restart

[Steve Lhomme]

On 2020-11-17 9:21, Alexandre Janniaux wrote:
>>>> The issue is not the glitch. It's how long it's going to take to unload a
>>>> display module and reload it, for a tiny change that would take almost no
>>>> time to handle directly.
>>>
>>> We should measure it. Shader recompilation is an issue but we
>>> might workaround it with shader caching. Some platforms already
>>> have transparent caching for this.
>>
>> There's a persistent cache even after the display module is released ?
> 
> Yes, even after the application is closed.
> See MESA_GLSL_CACHE_DISABLE.

I thought you meant VLC platforms, since you said "we might workaround 
it with shader caching". What you mention is a system cache, not a cache 
in VLC which we currently don't have.