From: hhemken@cell.cinvestav.mx (Heinz Hemken) Subject: Re: screen saver 19 Oct 1996 12:55:40 -0700 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <326911AE.6F8B.cygnus.gnu-win32@cell.cinvestav.mx> References: <199610182221.AAA07586@nemo.rip.ens-cachan.fr> Reply-To: hhemken@cell.cinvestav.mx Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I) Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > However, just put an OpenGL screen saver and benchmark > again your server... you'll be seriously disapointed (perhaps the OpenGL > screen savers don't put themselves at class "idle", or perhaps > something nasty in the GL subsystem hogs the CPU GL calculations are without a doubt monstrously heavy. Lighting, shading, reflection, geometric transformations on dozens or hundreds of polygons, 10 years ago it was state-of-the-art technology. Now it's a screen saver. > ... I don't know... but it > still eats too many cycles for a server). "Oh, the cheapness of mindless calculations in this modern age!" Roger Penrose The Emperor's New Mind, p. 25 > My preferred screen saver, however, eats 220V AC / 50Hz only when it is > *not* functioning... That must be one hell of a screen saver... -- Heinz Hemken http://www.cell.cinvestav.mx/hh/bchh.html - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".