[Intel-gfx] xf86-video-intel 2.5 release planning

Clemens Eisserer linuxhippy at gmail.com
Thu Jul 31 23:50:13 CEST 2008


> The *big* performance problem I fixed and mentioned in the blog post was
> text rendering on i965. I know that the "EXA is slower than XAA" also
> mentioned scrolling as a problem. I haven't looked at that yet, (nor
> have I looked at i945 yet), but I hope to be able to soon.
Any idea when the cache-glyphs-in-single-pixmap work will be
integrated into Xorg?
>From Owen's benchmarks it seems to push throughput to arround 500.000glyphs:
http://blog.fishsoup.net/2008/04/20/fast-text-use-a-single-cache-pixmap/

Thanks, Clemens



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