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Received: from mail2.digital.com (mail2.digital.com [204.123.2.56]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA17737 for <executor@nacm.com>; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 17:32:51 -0700 Received: from avette.zko.dec.com by mail2.digital.com; (5.65 EXP 4/12/95 for V3.2/1.0/WV) id AA15075; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 17:28:52 -0700 Received: by avette.zko.dec.com; (5.65/1.1.8.2/14Mar95-0517PM) id AA14545; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 20:28:47 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 20:28:47 -0400 From: Elan Feingold <feingold@zko.dec.com> Message-Id: <9508150028.AA14545@avette.zko.dec.com> To: mat@ardi.com (Mat Hostetter) Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Executor for Linux with svgalib support. In-Reply-To: <m0si6DK-000GOkC@gwar.ardi.com> References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950814232755.11573B-100000@munagin.ee.mu.OZ.AU> <m0si6DK-000GOkC@gwar.ardi.com> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk Mat Hostetter writes: > >>>>> "stewart" == stewart eric venters <venters@ee.mu.OZ.AU> writes: > > stewart> Does anybody know when it with be released and if we can > stewart> expect to see a release before the 2.0 version? > > It should be out within a few weeks (after we release Executor/NSFIP), > and definitely before 2.0 ships. Executor's pretty darn fast under > SVGAlib with hardware accelerated rect fills and stuff, although ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > SVGAlib doesn't fully support many boards. With unsupported boards > SVGAlib forces you to use old-style VGA 640x480 16 colors, which is a > fairly slow mode under Executor. > Doesn't the X server already take advantage of hardware acceleration, which would make executor fast under X for "rect fills and stuff" as well? I would assume that the main advantage of running executor under SVGAlib would be that executor could draw directly to the screen, as opposed to using shared memory under X, which essentially takes twice as long (program to buffer, buffer to screen). But I could be mistaken :) -Elan