From: H.J. Lu (hlu@eecs.wsu.edu)
Date: 02/21/93


From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Subject: Re: [Q] Performance of XFree86 1.2 v.v. 1.1 ???
Date: 21 Feb 1993 20:47:08 GMT

In article <1993Feb21.183501.321@adv.win.tue.nl>, devet@adv.win.tue.nl (Arjan de Vet) writes:
|> In article <arnd.730285969@rea> arnd@rea.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Arnd
|> Gehrmann) writes:
|>
|> >The time between starting startx and appearing the screen is much longer
|> >than under XFree86 1.1. The Performance is in that nearly as bad as in
|> >the older X386 V 1.1. What happend? Is it an Inst. od Config.problem?
|>
|> For me it is just the opposite: Xfree 1.1 started in 30 seconds, XFree 1.2
|> does it in 7 seconds :-)
|>
|> I'm using a 486DX33.
|>
|> Arjan

Dirk, I think -m486 does make a difference for 486 (good) and 386 (bad).
Maybe we should make a 386 version for Xfree86 1.2.

H.J.