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From: munir@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Munir Mallal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X speed, accelarators
Message-ID: <1210013@hpfcmgw.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Jul 89 18:55:26 GMT
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Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
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In article <SPENCER.89Jul15172912@spline.eecs.umich.edu>, spencer@eecs.umich.edu (Spencer W. Thomas) writes:
> In my experience, the HP X11 servers already take advantage of
> installed (2D) accellerators (can't use 3D accellerators because X is
> inherently 2D). 

This is true but the original poster said that he was using R3.  This
would be the generic release from MIT which has no optimisation.  When
HP ports the MIT releases they add device specific code to take
advantage of the hardware.

Munir Mallal

Disclaimer:  I work for HP but have little to do with X except as a user.