[SunHELP] ZX framebuffer performance

James Lockwood sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Tue Dec 5 17:15:54 CST 2000


On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:20:40PM -0800, James Lockwood wrote:
> > Not bad...  for 7 years ago.  It's quite slow nowadays as far as things
> > go, and remember that Sun never shipped an OpenGL driver for it (though I
> > believe TGS did).  Access to accelerated features was by (now deprecated)
> > XGL. 
> > -James
> 
> However, Sun's OpenGL supports it under 2.6... 

...which does not support any of the accelerated features, and is
therefore slower than a TGX.  It is used simply as a dumb framebuffer, as
is any other "generic" card.

-James




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