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James Miller wrote:
> 
> I tried the xserver you recommended, Steven (svga.tgz), 
> and it's made quite a difference in the performance of 
> Sylpheed on this machine.  There's no comparison in the 
> graphics of the program's gui: it's 100% better with this
> xserver (I'm using that server on this machine now).  
> Turns out it makes quite a performance difference as well.
> the CPU meter remains below the halfway point.  I'd say it 
> stays below the lower quarter of it's little box 

That's very interesting.  flwriter also performs badly on
the VGA16 Xserver, but is better on a hi-res Xserver.

> I just could not have guessed that the xserver could have 
> such an effect on the way a program runs.  

Same here.  I had assumed that 16 color, 640x480 resolution
would be faster than 256 color, 800x600 resolution.  Seems
like something funny (bad) is going on inside the VGA16
Xserver.

Cheers,
Steven