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Date:      Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:28:32 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Marco Beishuizen <marco@beishuizen.info>
Cc:        Jan Lentfer <Jan.Lentfer@web.de>, FreeBSD alpha mailing list <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Why is XFree86 on FreeBSD/Alpha much slower?
Message-ID:  <xzpr8abstm7.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0302132303200.17772@tsunami.bsd> (Marco Beishuizen's message of "Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:13:19 %2B0100 (CET)")
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Marco Beishuizen <marco@beishuizen.info> 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
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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