Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!bu.edu!polygen!jerry
From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: HLLs vs. Assembly
Message-ID: <1055@stewart.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 91 15:14:54 GMT
References: <1029@stewart.UUCP> <13345@ucrmath.ucr.edu> <1040@stewart.UUCP> <13516@ucrmath.ucr.edu>
Reply-To: jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
Lines: 22

In article <13516@ucrmath.ucr.edu> rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:
>
>...[About the X Window System]...
>
>Seriously, though, scrolling and redrawing are server operations, even these
>operations take a fast machine to work reasonably well.  On a SPARC this
>works okay, on a Sun-3, well you can go take a coffee break.  I'd hate to see
>it on an Apple IIgs, even with a TWGS.
>

I use a Sun-3, and the performance of the vanilla MIT X Window Server went
up by a factor of about 5 between Release 3 and Release 4.  The improvement
is unbelievable.  And yes, it's still written in C, so go figure.
--
+-------------------+----------------------+---------------------------------+
| JERRY J. SHEKHEL  | POLYGEN CORPORATION  | When I was young, I had to walk |
| Drummers do it... | Waltham, MA USA      | to school and back every day -- |
|    ... In rhythm! | (617) 890-2175       | 20 miles, uphill both ways.     |
+-------------------+----------------------+---------------------------------+
|           ...! [ princeton mit-eddie bu sunne ] !polygen!jerry             |
|                            jerry@polygen.com                               |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+