Francois.Bitz@SAM.CS.CMU.EDU (09/08/88)
My experience with X11.2 for color Suns (110-c and 60-c) has not been too good many because it is quite slower than the X10.4 version: I am writing 'commercial software' and so far everything I have moved from X10 to X11 is too slow, at time annoying to use; especially when it comes to images (my main area of interest) on color suns (although I get good performance with BW machines). Unfortunately everybody wants X11 (we were very pleased with the performance of X10R4 on the same machines)! I have some questions: Is this related to moving from pixrect to cfb in Xsun Did anybody at Sun or elsewere encounter the same problem? Is there a fixup (or hack) in sight, or should I bypass the Xsun implementation and make calls to raster-ops for images. Do other machines (i.e Ardent, SUN4-c) have a better performing implemnetation. thanks for any help on that matter.