Re: xpm slow?

["Eric A. Anderson" <eanders+@CMU.EDU>]

Philip Brown <philb@soda.berkeley.edu> writes:
> I disagree. The reason pixmaps are slow is because of X overhead.
> the reason fonts ar quicker is because of font mechanisms to reduce X
> overhead.
> With client/server models, there wil be NO X overhead. hence no problem.
All client/server will buy you is not having the X stuff running over
long-haul networks; you'll still be doing X stuff to the local
machine, which should have about the same performance as running
crossfire and displaying it on the same machine.
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One substantial slowdown to xpm stuff is the fact that it draws
multiple objects in a pile instead of just drawing the top object.
This will cause it to be slower than fonts.
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Can we make it as fast as fonts?  No.
Can we make it close?  We'll need to check.  It just feels slower, and
this is on a relatively fast X machine (sparc2 w/gx)
          -Eric 
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