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From: km@emory.uucp (Ken Mandelberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Speed of X11 on Sun
Message-ID: <2256@emory.uucp>
Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 00:12:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 24 00:12:42 1987
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In article <2253@emory.uucp> km@emory.uucp (Ken Mandelberg) writes:
>I just built X11R1 and am running it on a Sun 3/50.
>It runs very slowly (at least xterm does) in fact too
>slowly to actually use.


As was suggested, the speed problem was because of the default
debug flags in macros.sun. I knew they were there but didn't
expect that it would make more than a tiny bit of difference.
In practice, turning debugging off made an enormous difference.

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