From: kk@cs.tu-berlin.de (Kolja Kaehler) Subject: Re: Does a 387 help Linux's performance? Date: 5 Sep 1992 16:35:55 GMT
ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
[...]
:
: Where is most of the floating point taking place, in the server or the
: clients?
:
It depends on the kind of clients you want to run; obviously, if you want
to do raytracing, performance would increase wastly if the client used a fpu.
If your clients do a lot of graphics requests which should be processed as
fast as possible to speed up display (e.g. an interactive drawing program)
the server should be provided with the fpu.
Of course things are not always that easy ... (I'm not sure which solution
would be best for ghostview, for example).
:
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: Jim H.
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Kolja
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