Simple X windows benchmark

[John R. Levine]

In article <1990Jul30.020330.6291 at pcrat.uucp> rick at pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes:
>>	Cpu:		33MHz 386 (Mylex), 128k cache, 8megs RAM
>>	80387:		no
>>	Time:		1:43

>	Cpu:		16MHz 386 (Mylex), 64k cache, 4MB 32 bit + 4MB 16 bit
>	80287:		yes
>	Time:		1:39
>
>This is rather strange. The elapsed times are so close, ...

The X11R3 does a lot of floating point arithmetic, so the 287 makes a lot
of difference.  I gather that the X11R4 sample server has been rewritten
to do as much as possible as integer.  It would be interesting to see some
relative figures on the R4 server.

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