Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!barnett From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: X11 bashing Message-ID: Date: 18 Apr 91 17:30:51 GMT References: <14820@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Apr17.194141.17315@wlbr.imsd.contel.com> <14875@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Apr18.014319.8272@decuac.dec.com> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 14 In-reply-to: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com's message of 18 Apr 91 01:43:19 GMT In article <1991Apr18.014319.8272@decuac.dec.com> mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes: > PostScript can produce spiffy images, for sure, but it's just > too easy to produce 100K worth of glop to print a page. This is one reason why most well written PostScript code downloads routines to the printer to reduce the bytes transferred. Writing efficient PostScript is not trivial. But at least you have that option. There is another advantage of the Stencil/paint model over the raster-op model: It is possible to pipeline the rendering, and even render in parallel. -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crdgw1.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett