From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Feb 13 14:28:37 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C07F37B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:28:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD2BB43F3F for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:28:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id B0EE0536E; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:28:33 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Marco Beishuizen Cc: Jan Lentfer , FreeBSD alpha mailing list Subject: Re: Why is XFree86 on FreeBSD/Alpha much slower? From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:28:32 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Marco Beishuizen's message of "Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:13:19 +0100 (CET)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) References: <15945.23721.759825.313603@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <15945.24538.794799.926276@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <15945.25465.768071.583030@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <15945.26349.357142.151047@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <15945.27540.655333.324376@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <1045138456.618.5.camel@neslonek> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marco Beishuizen writes: > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, the wise Jan Lentfer spoke, and said: >> 1 2 Operation >> -------- ----------------- ----------------- >> 2140000.0 4880000.0 ( 2.28) Dot >> 1170000.0 1190000.0 ( 1.02) 1x1 rectangle >> 1170000.0 1180000.0 ( 1.01) 10x10 rectangle >> [...] > This doesn't look like a big performance improvement. My experience > changing to the 64-bit slot is that graphics is a lot faster now > (certainly more than a few procent). Especially working with PDF's and in > Gimp. Even browsing the web has improved. Perhaps it makes a difference > which graphic card is being used. It does indicate a 100% speed increase for setting individual pixels, which is what Acrobat and Gimp spends most of their time doing. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message