<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> We tried to use gradients to skin our application, but performance was so bad we soon gave up (on i855GM).<br>Oprofile showed the majority of time was spent in memcpy.<br>It would be great if these problems could be resolved in the upcoming xserver release.<br>Great to hear code has already been written!<br><br>thx Joel<br><br /><hr />Discover the new Windows Vista <a href='http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE' target='_new'>Learn more!</a></body> </html>