X Windows performance on PI

Vimal Parikh vimal at forum.esd.sgi.com
Sat Oct 7 02:19:12 AEST 1989


In article <594 at voodoo.UUCP>, zombie at voodoo.UUCP (Mike York) writes:
> How about picking?  The reason I ask is we were planning on getting the
> GT upgrade for our 4D/70's, but discovered that picking was
> significantly slower with the GT upgrade (6 times slower with 3.0, 
> 2 times slower with 3.1 -- we have 3.2 but have not ran our benchmarks yet).
> 
> Now we have lots of 4D/20's that our users want to upgrade.  Will the
> turbo upgrade slow picking down?
> 

	Picking operation on Turbo PI is slightly faster than on non-turbo PI.
You probably won't notice a significant increase but it will NOT be slower.

 Vimal Parikh
 MTS, Entry Systems Division.
 Silicon Graphics Inc.
 Mt. View, CA.



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