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Use mb_timer_man_t instead of mb_tman_t in mbaf
author Thinker K.F. Li <thinker@codemud.net>
date Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:27:40 +0800
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1 * MadButterfly
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2 #MadButterfly
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3 MadButterfly is a [[#SVG][SVG]] browser, HTML browser (ex, Firefox) is a HTML
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4 respective one. MadButterfly only understand SVG, controlling from users,
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5 and API for applications base on it. It is supposed to be a GUI framework
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6 for applications. The host applications can interact with MadButterfly
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7 like Javascript applications interacts with DOM objects. MadButterfly
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8 is a GUI evnironment based on SVG technologies for desktop and mobile
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9 device. It tries to make the work of programmers closed to client-side
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10 Javascript ones.
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12 MadButterfly is a SVG browser, it can be used to implement file manager,
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13 UI of commerical application for business, and even window manager for
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14 X Window. We try to implement MadButterfly as a library that can be
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15 embedded by host programs. It is alike Firefox been embedded by
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16 host programs.
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18 * SVG
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19 #SVG
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20 SVG is "Scalable Vector Graphics". It is a standard of W3C.
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21 MadButterfly implements [[http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/][SVG Tiny 1.2]], a simplified version of SVG for
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22 mobile devices.
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24 * Design
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25 Most notable of SVG, except sharps, is coordination transforms. To make
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26 MadButterfly efficiency, the execution of code should highly leverage
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27 time locality and spartial locality. So, we should aggregate computation
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28 of a function together. The data of container and contained elements
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29 should also be aggregated together.
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31 Since the attributes of SVG objects will be chagned frequently,
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32 unnecessarily recomputing for coordination transforms should be avoided.
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33 A sequential number should be attached to the objects to ditinguish
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34 dirty transformation result and recompute it when it is needed.
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36 ** Aggregate Computation
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37 Every update potentially invokes a function for every graphic elements.
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38 To be efficient, calls of a function are collected into a loop to avoid
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39 overhead of function calls. It also avoid interleaving of calls of
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40 functions to leverage time locality of code cache.
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42 ** Aggregate Relative Data
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43 Changes of a container usually effect contained elements. So, it had
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44 better to put container together with contained elements to increase
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45 hit rate of cache.
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47 * Transform
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48 If a coordination transformation transforms (x, y) to (x', y'), then
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49 > x' = xa * x + xb * y + xc
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50 > y' = ya * x + yb * y + yc
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51 is equal to
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52 > | xa xb xc | | x |
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53 > | ya yb yc | * | y |
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54 > | 0 0 1 | | 1 |
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56 A transform function of a element to canvas is production of all
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57 transform functions of containers, it is called aggregated transform
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58 function. The aggregated transform function of elements are
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59 computed with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming][dynamic programming]].
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61 ** Use Absolute
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62 Since we need to tranform positions, positions are transform to
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63 absolute coordinations if they are specified relative. It is
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64 fine when a relative position are rotated or resized. But, it
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65 would be wrong when shifting.