`just slow it`....

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Fri Feb 9 16:56:09 UTC 2001


On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Raab, Andreas wrote:

> > Good point.  Unfortunately, the Unix VM has no 24 bit mode 
> > which would be my OS mode.  This could explain some part of the delay.
> 
> It most certainly does. 

If the Unix VM had no 24 bit mode you wouldn't see anything. Or did you
mena the Squeak Display depth? That's always 32 bpp, not 24.

> I am not sure (Unix people might be able to answer that question) but
> I also think that using the X shared memory extensions makes a huge
> difference. Is there any way of finding out if it's used or not?!

If the -xshm command line option is present it is used.

-- Bert





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