On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 16:51, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > Unfortunately, the second XCopyArea is incredibly slow and I'm getting
> > just under 1 fps.  (normal without it)  This trick works fine on most
> > Sun X servers, but seems to die with XFree86/Linux IA-32.
> 
>    Pixmaps may or may not go in video ram.  Depending on the operations
> involved it may be faster being in one place or the other.  Generally,
> if everything is video memory it's fastest, but that may not always
> be possible.  When some buffers are in video ram and some aren't, moving
> data back and forth between them can be slower than if everything
> were in system ram.  Usually, this situation doesn't occur so it's
> a good policy to stick everything that you can in video ram. 

Mark, this did the trick. Thanks!

Jeff

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