Status of EXA with intel-2.2.0

Lukas Hejtmanek xhejtman at ics.muni.cz
Mon Dec 17 14:50:13 PST 2007


On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:10:46AM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > > No, non-965 doesn't wait for rendering like that.
> > Does this mean we should not expect major composition performance
> > improvements on non-965 hardware with new drivers?
> 
> EXA is a major performance improvement over XAA on my non-965 systems.

I disagree. Text scrolling in terminals was much slower with EXA than XAA.
Similarly, firefox and desktop switching was faster with XAA.
Unfortunatly, other types of operations are not used much at my system.

I had i915GM.

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Lukáš Hejtmánek



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