Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!radio.astro!brian
From: brian@radio.astro.utoronto.ca (Brian Glendenning)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X slow on colour suns?
Message-ID: <1989Feb10.105927.20572@radio.astro.utoronto.ca>
Date: 10 Feb 89 15:59:27 GMT
Reply-To: brian@radio.astro.utoronto.ca (Brian Glendenning)
Organization: Radio Astronomy, University of Toronto
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I recently built X11R3 on our colour Sun 3/180 (cgtwo - no monochrome
plane). While I don't expect it to be as fast as a monochrome system,
it seems to be too slow - certainly slower than SunView. An xterm
window or emacs window doesn't look much slower than my 2400 baud
modem logins from home. I know about the comment in the sun README
that the performance is "untuned".

Is this in an indication that I've installed something incorrectly, or
is X really that slow on colour only suns? (It takes lots of cpu as
well). If I made no mistakes, I compiled everything with gcc and fixes
1 to 8 and the latest Purdue speedups (2.1).

If colour suns really are this slow when will things improve? Is Sun
selling X yet? Presumably it would be faster :-) I want to do some
development for an astronomical imaging application, but it is very
painful with the current X. Thanks.
-- 
	  Brian Glendenning - Radio astronomy, University of Toronto
brian@radio.astro.utoronto.ca uunet!utai!radio!brian  glendenn@utorphys.bitnet