Xegl lives!

Jon Smirl jonsmirl at gmail.com
Tue May 24 12:14:25 PDT 2005


On 5/24/05, Lars Knoll <lars at trolltech.com> wrote:
> Well, it's working just fine in a way that the implementation is correct. If
> you ask the toolkit people (mainly cairo and Qt), you'd get a different
> answer. For lots of things we would like to do Xorg is really slow.

The fastest Cairo platform by 10x is glitz. The core of Xgl is based
on glitz. Seems to me like the fastest path to high performance Cairo
would be to get Xgl going.

Even if you make modifications to the open source XAA drivers
accelerating render there is no guarantee that NVidia/ATI will pick
them up. Chasing that path to accelerating Cairo performance is
ultimately a dead end.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl at gmail.com



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