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- Mat Hostetter writes:
- > >>>>> "stewart" == stewart eric venters <venters@ee.mu.OZ.AU> writes:
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- > 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
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- > 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.
- >
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- 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 :)
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- -Elan
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