Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!montnaro From: montnaro@brahma.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Xnews vs Xsun on SPARCstation 2 GX Message-ID: Date: 6 Dec 90 01:37:02 GMT References: <14271@leadsv.UUCP> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development, Schenectady, NY Lines: 17 In-reply-to: lanning@parc.xerox.com's message of 5 Dec 90 19:27:48 GMT In article lanning@parc.xerox.com (Stan Lanning) writes: T> In other words, most people do a lot of window creation, moving, T> resizing, hiding, exposing and destroying (After all what is a window T> system for?) Gee, sitting here in Emacs, editing text, reading mail and news, I thought that displaying text was still more frequent then creating windows. I agree. I have X11R4 and Xnews set up identically (they start the same apps and run everything identically modulo NeWS apps). The biggest apparent difference is cursor movement in Emacs. Common (for me) operations like ^F (forward-char) are at least 2 times faster in Xnews. I agree it's probably due to the CG6. -- Skip (montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com)