Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!bionet!arisia!roo!janssen From: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: WANTED: Faster X server for Sun4 w/GX Message-ID: Date: 28 Sep 90 02:31:51 GMT References: <9009271559.AA04425@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> <1990Sep27.143140@wind.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@parc.xerox.com Organization: Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 15 In-reply-to: naughton@wind.Eng.Sun.COM's message of 27 Sep 90 21:31:40 GMT In article <1990Sep27.143140@wind.Eng.Sun.COM> naughton@wind.Eng.Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton) writes: OpenWindows Version 2 takes advantage of the GX to speed up just about every graphics operation. Most operations are sped up 2-10X: But make sure that your application uses graphics operations before you switch: Drawing non-fixed-width fonts (most of Andrew, for example), seems about as fast on MIT X11R4 as on xnews 2.0. xterm, on the other hand, is recognizably faster (5-6X?). Bill -- Bill Janssen janssen@parc.xerox.com (415) 494-4763 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304