On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Behan Webster wrote:

> in /etc/X11/XF86Config instead of using xfs.  On most stand-alone
> machines, xfs is overkill, as far as I can tell.

The nice people on #gimp told me that xfs makes things more responsive
because the XServer does not block while it is rendering fonts. Ie xfs
does that 'in parallel' with the X Server, so only the app that is using
the font slows down.

Jason


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