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[Diego Barizo <diegoba AT adinet.com.uy>]

qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> 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
>
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Since Xsvga is not that bigger than xvga (1100Kb/710Kb) and will let you 
use a smaller web browser, may be XSvga should be used as the "default" 
X server for BL?

Diego