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From: tzeng@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Ping-San Tzeng)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Confusing performance data about XNEWS and R4
Message-ID: <22373@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 24 Feb 90 06:56:08 GMT
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Reply-To: tzeng@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Ping-San Tzeng)
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In article <14643@jumbo.dec.com> msm@src.dec.com (Mark S. Manasse) writes:

=If I had to guess, I'd say that what you're seeing is the performance of
=width 1 lines. ........ The R4 server handles width 1 lines
=by using the general wide-line code.  The XNews server treats width 1
=specially.

YES. All lines are of width 1.  I think this is the answer.

Thanks!

Ping-san.