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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: PURDUE+ speedup patches
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Date: 15 Dec 88 16:15:45 GMT
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In article <14671@lll-winken.llnl.gov> brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) writes:
>...the PURDUE+ speedups are so full of rejected patches that I don't
>dare fix them all by hand.

The only rejections I got were for README, mfbbitblt.c, mfbbres.c,
mfbsetsp.c, and mfbtegblt.c.  They weren't really all that much
trouble to hand-patch, just like the good ole days before lwall's gift
to the world :-).

The performance improvement is impressive.  At least one of our staff
has gone back to X11, even on a 4-Mb Sun-3/50.  Thanks!