From: dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave `geek' Gymer) Subject: Re: [Q] Performance of XFree86 1.2 v.v. 1.1 ??? Date: 23 Feb 1993 11:38:17 GMT
In article <1993Feb21.204708.5192@serval.net.wsu.edu> hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) writes:
>|> >The time between starting startx and appearing the screen is much longer
>|> >than under XFree86 1.1. [...]
>|> For me it is just the opposite: Xfree 1.1 started in 30 seconds, XFree 1.2
>|> does it in 7 seconds :-)
>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.
Well 1.2 starts slightly faster on my 386DX/33 than 1.1 did, so I don't think
that that's necessarily true. (I have 8 meg memory and 128k cache...)
-- Dave
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