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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000UX Color X
Message-ID: <1991Apr6.034011.22156@grebyn.com>
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
References: <20073@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1641@amix.commodore.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1991 03:40:11 GMT

In article <1641@amix.commodore.com> ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski) writes:
>In article <SWANSONC.91Apr3183624@grendel3.acc.stolaf.edu>
>swansonc@acc.stolaf.edu (Chris Swanson) writes:
>>Rumor has it that the color implimentation is about 4x faster than
>>the current b&w.
>
>This is not true.  The native color implementation will be slower than
>the monochrome server.  Sans magick, I don't see any way around this.

If the X11R3 port was badly done (rushed, for example, to meet shipping
deadlines) then this could be true.

Or, if X11R4 were recoded in hand-optimized assembly language by
Jez San, then it could be an order of magnitude faster in color than pcc-
compiled X11R3. (I suppose that qualifies as "magick". :-)
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