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From: jdavis@gollum.UUCP (James P. Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Performance comparison between X-based windowing and Pres. Mgr.
Keywords: X, OS/2, Presentation Manager, who's faster & by how much
Message-ID: <219@gollum.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 89 03:34:01 GMT
Reply-To: jdavis@gollum.UUCP (James P. Davis)
Organization: e&m columbia
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Has anyone looked at the relative differences in performance between an
X based windowing systems (like, for instance, OPEN LOOK or Motif) and
Presentation Manager under OS/2. It seems that X is going to be slower,
given the overhead of a networked environment, but has anyone examined
this with a test application or benchmark that they can share their
findings? Is it a few percent or an order of magnitude? If I am thinking
about PC's versus X displays (where client and server are on different
machines), is the performance difference going to be enough to sway me
towards buying an OS/2 "workstation" rather than an X display (ignoring the
difference in cost and availability, or lack thereof, of applications)?

Any enlightenment is most appeciated.

Jim Davis
NCR Advanced Systems Development
West Columbia, S.C.
jdavis@gollum.Columbia.NCR.COM