Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!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: 29 Sep 90 03:04:18 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: 16 In-reply-to: janssen@parc.xerox.com's message of 28 Sep 90 02:31:51 GMT In article janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) writes: 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?). Just to clarify, xterm uses ImageText8 calls, and Andrew textview uses PolyText8 calls. The way that the protocol is designed, ImageText8 seems to have much less overhead than PolyText8. I'd expect it to be faster in a properly optimized server. Bill -- Bill Janssen janssen@parc.xerox.com (415) 494-4763 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304