Firefox/Mozilla performance on the Xorg/Linux

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:31:00PM +0100, Maarten Maathuis wrote:
> On 1/17/08, Vedran Rodic <vrodic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This bug is actually also valid for the at least one additional driver: intel.
> >
> > Use Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true" (and add Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
> > for newer intel drivers, since the EXA performance is really bad for the intel
> > driver).
> >
> > I've changed the bug 12069 title, the component and reassigned the bug to
> > the default assignee, since this is clearly a wider XAA problem.
> >
> > Vedran
> 
> I think focus should be put on why exa performance is low, since xaa
> should be a thing of the past at some point. Providing some profiling
> results wouldn't be bad.

I can do some testing as well.  I have a Radeon 9800XT where 2D
performance is pretty sluggish.  In the past it was said that the
radeon drivers don't have the REDNER extension which was likely causing
my issues.

My original thread is here:

  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-October/029837.html

With some oprofile results.  I'm no expert at this stuff, so if someone
just tells me what to test I'm happy to bring back results.

I keep threatening to get an NVidia but I haven't yet. :)