Re: lucid is smaller but faster?

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From: Marc Andreessen
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 00:08

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In article <DSCHIEB.93Feb22173944@muse.cv.nrao.edu>
dschieb@muse.cv.nrao.edu (Darrell Schiebel) writes:

   > I think the speed must depend on the style of use.  I've found on my
   > sparc 2 that when using one screen per buffer, once I've gotten 6+
   > buffer/screens, lemacs gets unacceptably slow when switching screens,
   > to the point where it takes several seconds for a screen to raise.

           I too have experienced this. If there are any solutions, I'd
           appreciate hearing about them!

Part of this is due to Xt overhead.  Epoch wins big on performance by
doing its own graphics/windowing directly, I think.

How much is that menubar worth?  :-)

Marc

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Marc Andreessen
Software Development Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu

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