[PATCH 2/2] gears: show FPS count (as in glxgears from mesa/demos)

[Olivier BLIN]

On 07/25/2012 05:00 PM, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> Gears will now need the same disclaimer as glxgears has, otherwise end 
> users will start using this as a generic Wayland performance 
> benchmark. I can imagine some headlines on Phoronix when they compare 
> Wayland gears with glxgears and draw wildly incorrect conclusions. I 
> hope you will add a message explaining what this "fps" number really 
> means and what it can be used for. Thanks, pq 
Right, it would only make sense for a fps count sensibly lower than page 
flip or refresh frequency.

This small patch has been useful for me with a fullscreen 1080p gears, 
to check that llvmpipe was performing faster than DRI (using a software 
fallback on Intel Q35).
But I agree that with better performing hardware or drivers, it would 
not be a good metric.

Should I still rework the patch with a warning message?

Thanks for the feedback

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Olivier Blin - SoftAtHome


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