Re: [xougen] Question for newbies

[Yaroslav Rastrigin]

Hi !
On Thursday 18 September 2003 05:29, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 09/17 11:10 , Diego Calleja García wrote:
> > I saw this on osnews.com: http://www.rocklyte.com/news.html
> >
> > I'm a newbie in the X world, someone could explain in 2-3 lines what
> > these people did?
>
> I'm probably about as ignorant as you, truth be told; but to me it looks
> like some company is trying to hype their technology, and they're using
> fabricated benchmarks to do it.
??? Why do you think so ? Some things are missing from their press release, 
surely, but this is a press release, not an in-depth overview (in "Tom's 
Hardware" style).
They are using SciTech's SNAP binary drivers, and SciTech did a great job - 
I've installed SNAP beta, to give a look - and they are quite snappier (pun, 
yes). Basically, you could check SciTech's site to have more accurate 
benchmarking results, and I will not rule out possibility that rocklyte has 
actually improved overall 2d subsystem performance even further. After all, 
this isn't impossible.
What's even better (although probably off topic here) - they managed to 
produce _consistant_ UI. 
> IOW, it's meaningless marketspeak. :)
I have a feeling that this conclusion isn't thoroughly thought out :-)
>
> Carl Soderstrom.

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