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Re: Status of xfire. Client/server 3d.
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- Subject: Re: Status of xfire. Client/server 3d.
- From: (K. Bruner)
- Date: 11 Oct 1994 03:55:10 GMT
- Newsgroups: mlist.crossfire
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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Jason Venner <> writes:
>Why does everyone beat up on X performance.
>I have found X to be faster than most specific window/graphics systems
>- that do not have specialized hardware support that X can not use.
X performance on a standalone machine or with something not running over
the net is fine, great, wonderful, assuming you have a reasonable
processor. It's when you start sending X calls over ethernet or, even
worse, long distances that it gets to be a problem.
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