Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA00961; Sat, 30 Sep 95 11:50:47 EDT Received: from hubbub.cisco.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA17087; Sat, 30 Sep 95 11:50:19 EDT Received: from amri.cisco.com (amri.cisco.com [198.92.29.50]) by hubbub.cisco.com (8.6.12/CISCO.GATE.1.1) with ESMTP id IAA01584; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 08:39:45 -0700 Received: from hubbub.cisco.com (hubbub.cisco.com [198.92.30.32]) by amri.cisco.com (8.3/8.3) with ESMTP id GAA00183; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 06:16:04 -0700 Received: from velocity.com (serenitatis.velocity.com [198.174.199.2]) by hubbub.cisco.com (8.6.12/CISCO.GATE.1.1) with SMTP id HAA17632 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 07:34:08 -0700 Received: by velocity.com (NeXT-1.0f2 (From Sendmail 5.52)/NX3.0M) id AA25281; Thu, 28 Sep 95 09:34:07 CDT Message-Id: <9509281434.AA25281@velocity.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2) From: Ben Black Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 09:34:06 -0500 To: vsta@cisco.com Subject: Re: bitblt Reply-To: black@velocity.com References: > Unfortunately, my system with an S3 based video card (running >X/Accel) runs circle around a friend NS box. The display speed isn't >even close (even accounting for my faster CPU). DPS is quite a bit >slower than X. Especially when you throw in MIT-XSHM. so what kind of video board does your friend have? nextstep is very sensitive to what video board you use (a next problem, not a display postscript problem). my point was not that DPS is the fastest possible way to handle graphics, but rather that it was fast enough, and that the programming and printing (and whatever else) benefits more than compensated. if performance were the only goal, vsta would be written entirely in assembly optimized for andy's 386. usability is important too, and that is where DPS totally crushes X. do a little DPS programming and a little X programming and see for yourself. ben