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- 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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