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- From: ted@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: PI video boards and X performance
- Date: 8 Sep 1992 22:28:21 -0500
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- In article <1992Sep7.020221.14835@microunity.com> jsw@microunity.com (Jeff Weinstein) writes:
- >In article <laic2eINNb8b@bovina.cs.utexas.edu>, ted@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward) writes:
- >> Our project is in X only. No GL. It uses XDrawLine and various XFill
- >> routines. Will choosing a TG or XS24 over the G make any performance
- >> difference in this case? If so, how much for each?
-
- > You will definitely get the best performance from XS24. TG will give
- >the same X performance as G, since X specific microcode doesn't use
- >the turbo option.
-
- OK, gotcha. But how much faster is the XS24 than the G+? We're using SMS
- (Softcopy Mapping System) to put up maps, etc, and I'd like to know if there
- would be a noticible improvement going with the XS24, especially since it's
- about 8K more than the G+, and we are dual headed...
-
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