Subject: Re: Vast, vast speed increases
To: David Hopper <dhop@nwlink.com>
From: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 09/25/2002 14:23:18
> Thanks all, whatever has changed between 1.6D and 1.6H (dynamic linking?).
> I'm seeing dramatic speed & usability increases with this
> statically-linked 4.1.0 XFree server (compiled circa July 2001) on this
> Miata 600au. Mozilla is positively snappy.
Yah, pretty much all of the changes are in the dynamic linker. It
*should* be faster.
Sadly, my PWS600 has a TGA2 in it, which is not exactly a performer.
Maybe I should swap it with one of my spare Matrox cards.