imlib2/xrender benchmarks

[Jon Smirl]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:26:49 -0500, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 02:29 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > Give XGL a try and see if you can get it to work. You may be surprised
> > at the numbers.
> 
> I am surprised, but I suspect not the way you thought... In my
> experience, Xati on a Radeon 8500 blows away both imlib2 (on a >3 GHz
> Pentium 4) and Xgl with fglrx (even on an X800 Pro) in render_bench. The

So are you saying that flgrx is coded slower than Xati? Can't this be fixed by 
moving some code around?

> latter is one of the smoothest and probably the snappiest compositing
> experiences I've seen though (including Mac OS X), and I definitely
> agree it's a good way to move forward, but for now it's not a magic wand
> either.
> 
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