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From: mark@parc.xerox.com (Mark Weiser)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: WANTED: Faster X server for Sun4 w/GX
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Date: 28 Sep 90 05:54:35 GMT
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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

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