EXA

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 10:18 +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 10:07:55AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > So, to be honest, I did not try the latest Xserver from git (I have the
> > > latest xf86-video-intel driver), but EXA runs at 37.5% of XAA in x11perf
> > > for me.
> > 
> > ... for one specific test, which probably doesn't correspond to the
> > bottleneck of your desktop. I could similarly pick a test where EXA is
> > faster and claim that it's 'xx% faster'...
> 
> But I guess that switching virtual desktops corresponds to x11perf test. It is
> visually slower, mainly when switching from virtual desktop with
> gnome-terminals to virtual desktop with maximized firefox...
> 
> I could try to profile x11perf test with XAA and EXA. 

That could be useful, though even better would be profiling the virtual
desktop switching (generally, profiling real-world case > profiling
benchmark > no profiling).

> I try to pick latest git of Xserver (but I had a problem with it, after several 
> switching to VT and back the Xserver just quits with no error message, so I 
> reverted to stock debian installation.)

Could be due to http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11831 ?


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