Re: Graphics performance under linux

[Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com>]

** Reply to message from Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL> on Sun, 13 May
2001 23:20:45 +0200


> And if we're speaking about Unix systems in general: no PC video system
> comes even *close* to the performance of an sgi Infinite Reality 3. And
> yes, it runs X windows (with OpenGL extensions)

I don't think that's addressing his issue.  Yes, different cards can have
vastly different performance, but that's true under any operating system.  I
think his point was that given the same hardware and the same quality drivers
(i.e. drivers fully optimized to the OS and the hardware), X runs slower than
other PC operating systems (like OS/2 and Windows) because of the client/server
nature of X.  I don't know if that's true or not, but it does make sense to me.


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