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Re: FillRect vs Stencil

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From: Mark Linton
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1991 16:14
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In article <9106031709.AA01172@gorilla.erg.sri.com>, hight@ERG.SRI.COM (John Hight) writes:
|> 
|> (Speaking in 2.6:)
|> 
|> Does
|> anybody have an idea as to whether a Stencil can be redrawn faster
|> than a FillRect?

For equivalent sizes, it is hard to believe a stencil would be faster.  You might try running
xscope and seeing what operations are being sent to the X server in your inner loop.
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From: linton@marktwain.rad.sgi.com (Mark Linton)
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Subject: Re: FillRect vs Stencil
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Date: 4 Jun 91 16:14:15 GMT
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