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From: zombie@voodoo.UUCP (Mike York)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: X Windows performance on PI
Message-ID: <594@voodoo.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 89 15:55:37 GMT
References: <14134@shamash.cdc.com> <42473@sgi.sgi.com>
Reply-To: zombie@voodoo.UUCP (Mike York)
Organization: Voodoo Graphics Project
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In article <42473@sgi.sgi.com> bennett@galois.esd.sgi.com (Jim Bennett) writes:
>The Turbo graphics upgrade will help out applications that are drawing lots
>of lines or small polygons.  Large polygons are slightly improved.

How about picking?  The reason I ask is we were planning on getting the
GT upgrade for our 4D/70's, but discovered that picking was
significantly slower with the GT upgrade (6 times slower with 3.0, 
2 times slower with 3.1 -- we have 3.2 but have not ran our benchmarks yet).

Now we have lots of 4D/20's that our users want to upgrade.  Will the
turbo upgrade slow picking down?

-- 
Mike York
Boeing Computer Services, Renton, Washington
(206) 234-7724
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