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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.apps:997 comp.os.linux.misc:10620 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!cf-cm!cybaswan!iiitac From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: DOOM for X Message-ID: <1994Mar10.123047.15912@swan.pyr> Organization: Swansea University College References: <CM44Lq.78x@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> <2lkpg5$8hn@Tut.MsState.Edu> <hastyCMEw58.FMr@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 12:30:47 GMT Lines: 12 In article <hastyCMEw58.FMr@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >I really doubt that a direct access to a fast svga card on a local bus would >compare in performance to the client-server model of X. I thought the same, but time it one day. XShm is incredibly quick, you just tell the x server do this shm object and carry on. On something like a 6 cpu sparc its even better as X is rendering your image while you work on the next one > >If you ask me X is very, very broken in this respect. Apparently not. Alan