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Article #95Re: Future development of PEX/PHIGS
From: Allen Akin
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 18:58
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 18:58
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In article <1992Aug14.172943.22563@dsd.es.com> rthomson@dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson) writes: | ... The system bus and the speed of the graphics hardware is | still the bottleneck, so all this talk about reformatting doesn't have | a large impact upon performance. To the extent that the system bus is a bottleneck, reformatting (more precisely, the data transfer that reformatting incurs) is an issue for graphics performance. To the extent that the system bus is not a bottleneck, reformatting is an issue for CPU throughput. It may or may not be an issue for graphics performance, depending on the CPU/graphics balance of the application. Allen
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