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From: vimal@forum.esd.sgi.com (Vimal Parikh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: X Windows performance on PI
Summary: Picking on Turbo PI
Message-ID: <42636@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 6 Oct 89 16:19:12 GMT
References: <14134@shamash.cdc.com> <42473@sgi.sgi.com> <594@voodoo.UUCP>
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Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <594@voodoo.UUCP>, zombie@voodoo.UUCP (Mike York) writes:
> 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?
> 

	Picking operation on Turbo PI is slightly faster than on non-turbo PI.
You probably won't notice a significant increase but it will NOT be slower.

 Vimal Parikh
 MTS, Entry Systems Division.
 Silicon Graphics Inc.
 Mt. View, CA.