RE: Speed of XFree86 4.0 based X-server

[Mikhail Tchernychev <mikhail_tchernychev at yahoo dot com>]

Thank you,

I used file from contrib. I'll try another one.

Best Regards,
Mikhail

--- Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Excuse me for my intervention and please accept my
> > congratulation with  new X server release.
> 
> You are welcome any time!
> 
> > 
> > I was able to install and run it somehow. However,
> > I see that is very *slow*. Few month ago I tried 
> > GDI based server; it worked just fine but speed
> > was unacceptable.
> > 
> > I takes few seconds just to drag a window. Menu
> > appears like a half of second. I tried both 
> > (GDI and DirectX)  servers and speed is
> approximately
> > the same. Am I right or I do something wrong?
> 
> Did you try Xwin.exe from xc-4-binaries directory?
> 
> The speed on GDI and DXWIn32 servers from contrib
> could
> be slow, because both use remote framebuffer, which
> is a
> compromise between speed and stability, i.e to get
> MSVC X-servers compiled and stable enough to work. 
> These
> servers do not use anything from XFree86 4.0 code
> therefore
> their performance could not be compared to XFree86
> on a Linux
> box.
> 
> XWin.exe use code from XF86 4.0 and can be compared
> to XF86 on Linux.  However, [please note, that most
> of
> the XFree86 extensions do not compile MSVC,
> therefore
> Cygwin Development Tools were chosen.  Cygwin1 UNIX 
> emulation layer does affect performance somehow and 
> can cause a loss of performance of slower CPU's.
> 
> > 
> > I am running Pentium II 200 Mhz with Matrox 2 MB 
> > card. Xfree linux server runs perfectly - no 
> > complains about speed, faster then Windows NT.
> > 
> > Did I do something wrong? What is your speed 
> > comparison with Linux/BSD X free servers?
> 
> 
> No, You did not do anything wrong.
> 
> Well, I could not compare XF between Linux
> and Windows at my machine.  I am using
> Pentium III 1000 MHZ, with nVidia Geforece2 64 MB
> video RAM. Performance loss on my CPU is a matter
> of a few seconds, which cannot be noticed.
> 
> Regards
> Suhaib
> 
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > Mikhail
> > 
> > 
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