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Received: from tua.st.hmc.edu (Tua.ST.HMC.Edu [134.173.48.55]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA25768 for <executor@nacm.com>; Mon, 8 May 1995 07:20:30 -0700 Received: (from tua@localhost) by tua.st.hmc.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id HAA00285; Mon, 8 May 1995 07:19:27 -0700 From: Toby Everett <tua@tua.st.hmc.edu> Message-Id: <199505081419.HAA00285@tua.st.hmc.edu> Subject: Re: Things I would like to see E/L To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 07:19:27 -0700 (PDT) Cc: executor@nacm.com In-Reply-To: <9505080159.AA28241@isa> from "Warwick Allison" at May 8, 95 11:59:04 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1189 Sender: owner-executor@nacm.com Precedence: bulk Warwick Allison wrote: > Toby Everett wrote: > >BTW, I will probably be purchasing a S3864 based VESA card within the next > >month. I will see if that makes a huge difference or not in Executor speed. > > That will be very interesting. If you could run a few tests before and after > (using a few programs such as the "rotating globe" - it shows frames per sec., > I believe). Then we could get an idea of the difference ISA/VESA makes. Welp, I ended up buying such a card off someone here on campus. It ends up making some difference, but for programs like the rotating globe program I'm not seeing much of a change. I'm still planning on keeping the board for other reasons (such as I can populate to 2MB). However, in my testing I found out something very interesting. -privatecmap _slows down_ some programs dramatically, notably Civilization. It would be nice to find out if anyone else knows of programs that are somewhat usable without a private colormap and that are almost totally unusable (due to speed concerns) with a private colormap. This really surprised me, as all my inuition (and information) pointed to -privatecmap as being decidedly faster. --Toby Everett 
