speed of X server
Suhaib Siddiqi
ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Tue Jul 3 13:36:00 GMT 2001
Cygwin UNIX emulation causes some slow down.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Michael Genisio [ mailto:genisiob@pilot.msu.edu ]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 12:19 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: speed of X server
>
>
> I love the Xfree distribution under windows. Of course,
> because of the cygwin
> layer, XFree in windows is quite a bit slower than XFree in
> most UNIX flavors
> on the same hardware. I was wondering why this is... to get
> a handle on it.
>
> Windows, in general is slower than most Unix flavors. That
> is the first
> problem, but then how does cygwin slow things down? Does it
> have to do with
> DLLs? For instance, the latency for an XSync (which is
> really just a call to
> XGetInputFocus) on XFree under cygwin is much longer than in
> Linux on the same
> machine.
>
> Are we dealing with network handling in the cygwin layer?
> Possibly the select
> call is implemented slowly? Or might this have to do with
> the way Windows
> handles its scheduler?
>
> I am very curious about this, so if anyone knows what it is about
> cygwin/windows that makes XFree so much slower.
>
> Long Live Open Source!!!
> Brian
>
>
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