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But apps shouldn't be able to hammer WindowServer in the first place. If your app is misbehaving, your app should hang, not the OS window compositor! FWIU ther
by sunnyps 6mo ago
But apps shouldn't be able to hammer WindowServer in the first place. If your app is misbehaving, your app should hang, not the OS window compositor!
FWIU there's really no backpressure mechanism for apps delegating compositing (via CoreAnimation / CALayers) to WindowServer which is the real problem IMO.
- steve1977 6mo agoAnd I could imagine SwiftUI only makes this worse, because it's quite easy to trigger tons of unnecessary redraws.
- saagarjha 6mo agoPeople don't really like apps that stutter.
- duskdozer 6mo agoAnd maybe that would get enough users to leave or complain that managers might allow some dev time to fix bad behavior.