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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 3D rendering
From: andrey mirtchovski <andrey@lanl.gov>
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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 12:12:01 -0700
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if you want an example of something that already does double buffering
in plan9, you should look at the XaoS port:

http://www.acl.lanl.gov/plan9/xaos/

performance is reasonable on terminals and is mostly bound by the
video card...

i see a slow decrease if the command is ran using 'cpu' to switch to
another server, when actually you transfer data from a remote machine.

so, you can do both -- run locally and remotely.

with a 600x600 pixel window I get the following on XaoS:

local (not standalone though): 		65fps 
remote (100baseT): 				11fps

themachines in question are k7/800 and piii/800 respectively.


cheers, andrey