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From: jdi@fridge.Franz.COM (John Irwin)
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Subject: Re: RAL meta-patch
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Date: 12 Sep 89 18:30:50 GMT
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In article <GRUNWALD.89Aug16172137@flute.cs.uiuc.edu> grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>I also have to admit that I didn't find the RAL patches to be any
>faster than the Purdue+ V2.1 patches. I compiled using gcc-1.35.96,
>and had -DPURDUE -DRAL -DNO_SUN_CG4.
>
>The resulting binary was bigger, and the server had some problems
>(highlighted areas were retained, minor things). The may be due to
>using gcc 1.35.96 (doubtful) or because I used the Purdue +2.1
>patches (more likely) or because I botched the installation (doubtful).

I just got it working (after adding -lpixrect, etc) and it seems faster for
some operations, especially CopyArea.  (Ok, so I don't have any numbers to
back this up, having deleted my xstones source -- does anyone?)
Also, the binary was smaller (!) on a SunOS4.0 sun4/260.

Has anybody got a patch for the highliting problem?  (Hint: you'll only see
it if you run your Xterm's in white on black mode)

	-- John
	   jdi@franz.com