Here are the benchmarks I promised earlier.
Note that this is with the current versions of fVDI, the device driver
and the Eclipse logic programming.
All numbers are likely to change in the future.
                                                             fVDI
               fVDI         screen-       no blits           screencache
               doblit  +CB  cache   +CB   scr->RAM   +CB     and NVDI
Dialog          697                                            617
Normal text    4656   4966                                    3725
Text effects   4966   5745                                    3329
Small text     4592   4960                                    3024
Graphics       1188   1201                                    1188
Window          961                                            903
Blit             46     49  2289            188               2289
Scroll         2542                                           2459
Justified      3064   3275                                    1623
Queries        1281   1781                                    1171
New dialogs     257    274   600    678     426      463       553
An empty place refers to one of the first two columns (depending on +CB).
This is with fVDI running in 1024x768x16bit_at_60Hz on a Falcon+AB040 at 32/16MHz,
compared to a standard Falcon running at 640x480x8bit (standard GEMBench
comparison).
doblit      - Force fVDI to actually do screen->RAM blits.
              (the default is to not do them due to earlier problems)
+CB         - Same as previous column, but with the cache in copyback mode.
screencache - Screen->RAM blits (and back again) are handled on the card only.
no blits    - Screen->RAM blits are not done, but the reverse ones are.
              (Obviously this won't always look very nice.)
When NVDI is used together with fVDI in the way done here, it takes over
all text rendering. That is, you'll have access to all its outline fonts
and such things. Naturally, all printer drivers etc are also available.
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