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Re: Faster 3.0 on Color Machine via dwrite

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From: Izumi Ohzawa
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 01:57
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In article <1992Oct30.235141.4139@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> gary@nshade.uah.ualberta.ca (Gary Ritchie)  
writes:

>    dwrite -g NXWindowDepthLimit TwoBitGray
>
>Have others tried this technique before?  Is my machine really going  
>faster, or am I just light-headed from hunger late on a Friday afternoon?
>

This will not necessarily speed up an app.
It depends on the app.  FrameMaker 3.0 performs much better when the
window depth is promoted to match the display.  It crawls when the
window is in 2-bit gray depth on a Color station.


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