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RE: Speed of XFree86 4.0 based X-server
- To: "Mikhail Tchernychev" <mikhail_tchernychev at yahoo dot com>, <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: Speed of XFree86 4.0 based X-server
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 09:46:46 -0400
> Excuse me for my intervention and please accept my
> congratulation with new X server release.
You are welcome any time!
>
> I was able to install and run it somehow. However,
> I see that is very *slow*. Few month ago I tried
> GDI based server; it worked just fine but speed
> was unacceptable.
>
> I takes few seconds just to drag a window. Menu
> appears like a half of second. I tried both
> (GDI and DirectX) servers and speed is approximately
> the same. Am I right or I do something wrong?
Did you try Xwin.exe from xc-4-binaries directory?
The speed on GDI and DXWIn32 servers from contrib could
be slow, because both use remote framebuffer, which is a
compromise between speed and stability, i.e to get
MSVC X-servers compiled and stable enough to work. These
servers do not use anything from XFree86 4.0 code therefore
their performance could not be compared to XFree86 on a Linux
box.
XWin.exe use code from XF86 4.0 and can be compared
to XF86 on Linux. However, [please note, that most of
the XFree86 extensions do not compile MSVC, therefore
Cygwin Development Tools were chosen. Cygwin1 UNIX
emulation layer does affect performance somehow and
can cause a loss of performance of slower CPU's.
>
> I am running Pentium II 200 Mhz with Matrox 2 MB
> card. Xfree linux server runs perfectly - no
> complains about speed, faster then Windows NT.
>
> Did I do something wrong? What is your speed
> comparison with Linux/BSD X free servers?
No, You did not do anything wrong.
Well, I could not compare XF between Linux
and Windows at my machine. I am using
Pentium III 1000 MHZ, with nVidia Geforece2 64 MB
video RAM. Performance loss on my CPU is a matter
of a few seconds, which cannot be noticed.
Regards
Suhaib
>
> Best Regards,
> Mikhail
>
>
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