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From: pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Scott)
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Subject: Why is plaid so cpu-intensive?
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Question: what makes plaid so damn cpu-intensive?  For
something that just draws rectangles it sure puts a
hell of a load on a machine.  When I run it on vendor's
machines at expos they give me dirty looks when the
cursor gets stuck  :-)


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