imlib2/xrender benchmarks

[Michel Dänzer]

On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 11:31 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> 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?

Apples and oranges. As I hinted in the part of my post that you snipped,
Xglx on fglrx is at least as fast as Xati overall in normal desktop
compositing. I suspect Xglx just needs a lot of optimization, and maybe
the OpenGL drivers as well for the new workload.


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