X11 bashing

[Bruce Barnett]

In article <1991Apr18.014319.8272 at decuac.dec.com> mjr at hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:

>	   PostScript can produce spiffy images, for sure, but it's just
>   too easy to produce 100K worth of glop to print a page. 

This is one reason why most well written PostScript code downloads
routines to the printer to reduce the bytes transferred. Writing efficient
PostScript is not trivial. But at least you have that option.

There is another advantage of the Stencil/paint model over the
raster-op model: It is possible to pipeline the rendering, and even
render in parallel. 
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Bruce G. Barnett	barnett at crdgw1.ge.com	uunet!crdgw1!barnett