[Qt-interest] QTimer on Windows in Unreliable for Small (16ms - 30ms) Delays

[Jeffrey Brendecke]

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On Saturday 05 September 2009 05:50:12 you wrote:

> > * In the main thread, on each time out, pull a rendered frame from the
> > queue and display it. If the ticks are not getting swallowed due to
> > whatever external constraints, then it seems the rendering would need to
> > give, stopping rendering and going on to the next frame if it did not
> > finish in time. Maybe some sort of interlacing could result in at least
> > the frame getting covered from top to bottom, though not on every line.
>
> Sounds interesting - not sure how to implement that - care to elaborate
> any more?

Interlacing here means, e.g., draw odd rows first, then fill with the even. 
Whether this would help or not would need to be investigated and determined 
based upon where the real bottlenecks are.