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From: naughton@wind.Eng.Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: WANTED: Faster X server for Sun4 w/GX
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.112820@wind.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 28 Sep 90 18:28:20 GMT
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In article <545@roo.UUCP>, mark@parc.xerox.com (Mark Weiser) writes:
|> 
|> We find the biggest win for blit operations from a client is to
|> use the shared memory extension in X11R4.  This is not in OpenWindows 2.0,
|> so OW 2.0 is slower on our GX sparcstations that X11R4 from MIT.
|> We don't use OW much.
|> 
|> -mark
|> 
|> --
|> Spoken: Mark Weiser 	ARPA:	weiser@xerox.com	Phone: +1-415-494-4406

--

You must be misinformed:

% xdpyinfo -display unix:0

name of display:    unix:0.0
version number:    11.0
vendor string:    X11/NeWS - Sun Microsystems Inc.
vendor release number:    2000		<<<<----------- Version 2 OpenWindows
maximum request size:  16384 longwords (65536 bytes)
motion buffer size:  100
bitmap unit, bit order, padding:    32, MSBFirst, 32
image byte order:    MSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats:    2
supported pixmap formats:
    depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
    depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
keycode range:    minimum 8, maximum 132
number of extensions:    2
    SunWindowGrabber
    MIT-SHM		<<<<<<-------------------------------
default screen number:    0
number of screens:    2
	...

The MIT-SHM extension is the same as the one in X11R4.

-Patrick

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