[xeonmc]

1. It doesn’t help that on Windows’ “Triple buffering” options actually means FIFO forced three-frame buffering. So people had prestablished PTSD from those dreadfully laggy smoothing.

2. Triple buffering does not reduce latency compared to unsynced tearing. It’s a spatial vs temporal tradeoff between whether to let frequency mismatches manifest as tearing or jitter. For passive consumption of motion, losing temporal consistency in exchange for spatial cohesion is the better tradeoff and so triple buffering is appropriate. For active controls of motion and its feedback, temporal consistency is absolutely critical whereas spatial cohesion while in motion is far, far less important, so triple buffering is unacceptable in this use case.

[tadfisher]

I should have been more clear and contrasted with double-buffering, thanks.