Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Feb 1998 06:25:22 +0100 (MET) | From | Stefan Mars <> | Subject | Re: GGI, EGCS/PGCC, Kernel source |
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On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Stefan Mars wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > Please do so. This mail was mostly meant as 'some people have valid > > > objections to ggi' :-). > > > > No, that would be "Some people have valid objections to the current state > > of ggi without knowing what is being worked on in the project :)" > > IMHO, GGI still has no strong concepts to support accelerated operations > on PC GX cards. XFree86 has a strong concept, XAA. Not using acceleration > puts us back into graphics stone-age .. (for windowing that is, some cool > games like Quake do their own stuff). > > just compare XGGI and XFree86 xbench numbers on an accelerated card...
May I ask which card you tested?
> just look at how Win95 and NT have ducked this problem, Win95 gives full > access to user code, NT 4.0 has put the graphics code into the kernel. GGI > would be something like NT 3.51, dead slow doing graphics, and no games > would run on it at sane speeds ...
May I again point out that we are not finished, and should be a lot faster when we are. If you see something wrong with the way we are trying to do acceleration, then please say in _what_ way you think we are wrong.
-Stefan
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