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Re: Executor usefulness?
In article <s5gka4dvpeg.fsf@catfish.lcs.mit.edu>,
Patrick J. LoPresti <patl@lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>I would add that performance under SVGAlib is *significantly* better
>than under X (assuming linear frame buffer support exists for your
>video card). X is particularly poorly suited for emulating
>applications which avoid the Mac ROMs and try to scribble directly to
>screen memory.
Quite a few X servers permit use of an extension call shared memory, that
permits an application to write directly to the screen's video RAM. Performace
doesn't have to be bad.
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