From: Kostya Vasilyev <kostik@verio.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:07:04 -0700

RE: SVGAlib wrapper now actually works!

: -----Original Message-----
: From: Marcus Sundberg [mailto:e94_msu@elixir.e.kth.se]
: Sent: Thursday, August 13, 1998 9:12 AM
: To: ggi-develop@eskimo.com
: Subject: SVGAlib wrapper now actually works!
: 
: 
: The native X version of Dumb gives 15.8 fps in 640x480x16 on my 
: box, and the SVGAlib version gives 14.4 fps when running in the
: same resolution on our SVGAlib wrapper, running on the X-target!

15.8 fps == 63.29 ms per frame
14.4 fps == 69.44 ms per frame
diff.    ==  6.15 ms per frame

or at 200 MHz it's 1.23 MILLION cycles.

now let's re-do the math at higher fps:

60 fps == 16.66 ms per frame
+ 6.15 == 22.81 ms per frame
which is  43.82 fps

this is pretty significant loss of performance. 

~kostik