Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!tut!ks From: ks@tut.fi (Syst{ Kari) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: 5 times faster? Message-ID: Date: 11 Oct 90 08:47:14 GMT References: <1990Oct10.154744.12240@cs.columbia.edu> Sender: news@funet.fi (#News ) Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland. Lines: 36 In-Reply-To: djk@cs.columbia.edu's message of 10 Oct 90 15:47:44 GMT It is allways dangerous to state n times faster... So don't take Sun's claim (or this article) to literally. According to my experiences X-side is significantly faster and NeWS-side is faster (about 20%) than old release. I also run some randomly picked benchmarks by using 'x11perf'. I got the following results on SS1 with color disp. OW2 is 1.0-4.0 times faster than OW1 I also noticed that OW2 is 1.6-3.5 times faster than MIT X11 on SS1 with color. On any other platform OW2 and MIT-X seemed to have about the same performance. I think the most performance inprovements are done to the olwm, which replaces the old pswm. Unfortunately, I also lost the possibility to configure the window manager by using postscript. Anyway, you really can notice the performance improvement of the wm in everyday usage. BTW: I'm still waiting for better NeWS-side. The OW2 broke several of my NeWS-applications, especially those who used lite-toolkit. For example my favorit terminal-window was a NeWS-application. In OW2 it is unusable because of focus and other problems. -- This article represents my personal views. Quote of the year: "X is the Fortran of windowing systems." Kari Systa, Tampere Univ. Technology, Box 527, 33101 Tampere, Finland work: +358 31 162585 fax: +358 31 162913 home: +358 31 177412