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Date:      Wed, 09 Jul 1997 15:02:45 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        "Andrew Atrens" <atrens@nortel.ca>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: no SYSVSHM in GENERIC now.. 
Message-ID:  <199707092202.PAA24433@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "09 Jul 1997 15:16:00 EDT." <199707091923.MAA02400@hub.freebsd.org> 

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>Does the X-server run any faster with MIT-SHM than without?
>If it runs faster then I would vote to keep the stuff in GENERIC.

   It only runs faster for applications which use the MIT-SHM extension, which
are _very_ few. I don't think anything in the standard X11 distribution uses
it, for example.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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