imlib2/xrender benchmarks

[David Reveman]

On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 16:18 -0800, Cameron wrote:
> I can't seem to get the patch to apply. 
> 

oh sorry, I sent you the reverse patch. this new one should work.

> -Cameron
> 
> On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 19:40 +0100, David Reveman wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 11:27 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > > Shouldn't XGL be faster than this? Isn't this something that XGL can
> > > do in hardware?
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:14:56 -0800, Cameron <hiryu at audioseek.net> wrote:
> > > > A bit of an improvement with xgl.
> > > > 
> > > > On someone what of an unrelated note, gnome/kde crash xgl, as well as
> > > > any gtk apps I've tried (I didn't tried any non-kde qt apps).
> > > > 
> > > > Available XRENDER filters:
> > > > nearest
> > > > bilinear
> > > > convolution
> > > > fast
> > > > good
> > > > best
> > > > Setup...
> > > > *** ROUND 1 ***
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Test: Test Xrender doing non-scaled Over blends
> > > > Time: 3.154 sec.
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Test: Test Xrender (offscreen) doing non-scaled Over blends
> > > > Time: 0.956 sec.
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Test: Test Imlib2 doing non-scaled Over blends
> > > > Time: 0.346 sec.
> > > > *** ROUND 2 ***
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Test: Test Xrender doing 1/2 scaled Over blends
> > > > Time: 13.497 sec.
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Test: Test Xrender (offscreen) doing 1/2 scaled Over blends
> > > > Time: 2.493 sec.
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Test: Test Imlib2 doing 1/2 scaled Over blends
> > > > Time: 0.122 sec.
> > > > *** ROUND 3 ***
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Test: Test Xrender doing 2* smooth scaled Over blends
> > > > Time: 63.759 sec.
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Test: Test Xrender (offscreen) doing 2* smooth scaled Over blends
> > > > Time: 63.145 sec.
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Test: Test Imlib2 doing 2* smooth scaled Over blends
> > > > Time: 5.469 sec.
> > > > *** ROUND 4 ***
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Test: Test Xrender doing 2* nearest scaled Over blends
> > > > Time: 41.905 sec.
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Test: Test Xrender (offscreen) doing 2* nearest scaled Over blends
> > > > Time: 36.738 sec.
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Test: Test Imlib2 doing 2* nearest scaled Over blends
> > > > Time: 1.506 sec.
> > > > *** ROUND 6 ***
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Test: Test Xrender doing general nearest scaled Over blends
> > > > Time: 101.508 sec.
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Test: Test Xrender (offscreen) doing general nearest scaled Over blends
> > > > Time: 76.356 sec.
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Test: Test Imlib2 doing general nearest scaled Over blends
> > > > Time: 2.495 sec.
> > > > *** ROUND 7 ***
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Test: Test Xrender doing general smooth scaled Over blends
> > > > Time: 226.497 sec.
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Test: Test Xrender (offscreen) doing general smooth scaled Over blends
> > > > Time: 182.320 sec.
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Test: Test Imlib2 doing general smooth scaled Over blends
> > > > Time: 21.627 sec.
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 02:29 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > > > > Give XGL a try and see if you can get it to work. You may be surprised
> > > > > at the numbers.
> > > > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2004-November/004358.html
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 07:19:47 +0000, Cameron <hiryu at audioseek.net> wrote:
> > > > > > Hello,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm sure many people have seen imlib2 vs xrender benchmarks before,
> > > > > > however, I still think these deserve a look. I do have render
> > > > > > acceleration enabled for my card. My card is also quite high end.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://audioseek.net/~hiryu/render.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Anyway, hope this is helpful.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > -Cameron
> > > > > >
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> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > That's actually pretty good :-) because that's all done in software!
> > 
> > I've looked at render_bench and it creates Pictures with wrong
> > attributes "component alpha" and "dither" true for both target pictures
> > and source pictures. I don't think that's what rasterman wanted to do.
> > Xgl always fall-back to software rendering as soon as it sees the dither
> > flag right now, I guess in a lot of cases the dithering flag can just be
> > ignored and for the rest, all I really need is one line in Xgl to turn
> > on GL dithering, I should fix that. :-)
> > 
> > However, I don't think dithering should be used in render_bench. The
> > attached patch fixes the render_bench program so that Xgl will actually
> > accelerate it.
> > 
> > I get the following results when running render_bench on AMD athlon 1800
> > + with GeForce4:
> > 
> > Available XRENDER filters:
> > nearest
> > bilinear
> > convolution
> > fast
> > good
> > best
> > Setup...
> > *** ROUND 1 ***
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Test: Test Xrender doing non-scaled Over blends
> > Time: 0.115 sec.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Test: Test Xrender (offscreen) doing non-scaled Over blends
> > Time: 0.127 sec.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Test: Test Imlib2 doing non-scaled Over blends
> > Time: 0.593 sec.
> > *** ROUND 2 ***
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Test: Test Xrender doing 1/2 scaled Over blends
> > Time: 0.071 sec.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Test: Test Xrender (offscreen) doing 1/2 scaled Over blends
> > Time: 0.071 sec.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Test: Test Imlib2 doing 1/2 scaled Over blends
> > Time: 0.222 sec.
> > *** ROUND 3 ***
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Test: Test Xrender doing 2* smooth scaled Over blends
> > Time: 0.319 sec.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Test: Test Xrender (offscreen) doing 2* smooth scaled Over blends
> > Time: 0.345 sec.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Test: Test Imlib2 doing 2* smooth scaled Over blends
> > Time: 8.019 sec.
> > *** ROUND 4 ***
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Test: Test Xrender doing 2* nearest scaled Over blends
> > Time: 0.317 sec.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Test: Test Xrender (offscreen) doing 2* nearest scaled Over blends
> > Time: 0.340 sec.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Test: Test Imlib2 doing 2* nearest scaled Over blends
> > Time: 3.005 sec.
> > *** ROUND 6 ***
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Test: Test Xrender doing general nearest scaled Over blends
> > Time: 0.480 sec.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Test: Test Xrender (offscreen) doing general nearest scaled Over blends
> > Time: 0.597 sec.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Test: Test Imlib2 doing general nearest scaled Over blends
> > Time: 5.509 sec.
> > *** ROUND 7 ***
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Test: Test Xrender doing general smooth scaled Over blends
> > Time: 0.511 sec.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Test: Test Xrender (offscreen) doing general smooth scaled Over blends
> > Time: 0.569 sec.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Test: Test Imlib2 doing general smooth scaled Over blends
> > Time: 25.736 sec.
> > 
> > That's a bit better, and there's still some room for improvements.
> > 
> > I'd like to see what kind of results we get from the GeForce 6800 card
> > when this test is run properly. Cameron, can you run this test on Xgl
> > again with my patch applied to render_bench?
> > 
> > The previous results must have made a bunch of people think twice about
> > Xgl. :-)
> > 
> > -David
> 
-David
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