On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Daniel Egger wrote: > On Feb 11, 2004, at 4:06 pm, Sven Neumann wrote: > > > Daniel recently posted a list of X extensions supported by the Apple > > X11 server. The MIT-SHM extension was part of this list but today I > > found that at least in darwinports gtk2 is compiled with the > > --disable-shm configure option. Does anyone know if fink does this as > > well? > > I can confirm it does. > > > Is there a particular reason to disable the use of the XShm > > extension on OS X? This would explain at least some of the slowness > > that people reported here lately. IIRC, didn't early versions of OS X have truly pitiful amounts of shared memory available? Perhaps that is the reason. Rockwalrus
