Xegl lives!

[Lars Knoll]

On Tuesday 24 May 2005 21:14, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 5/24/05, Lars Knoll <lars at trolltech.com> wrote:
> > Well, it's working just fine in a way that the implementation is correct.
> > If you ask the toolkit people (mainly cairo and Qt), you'd get a
> > different answer. For lots of things we would like to do Xorg is really
> > slow.
>
> The fastest Cairo platform by 10x is glitz. The core of Xgl is based
> on glitz. Seems to me like the fastest path to high performance Cairo
> would be to get Xgl going.

It's probably the cleanest path and the thing we should have in the medium 
term. I doubt it's the fastest path to fix the biggest performance problems 
with Render in the short term.

We've done a fast software implementation with a weeks work, and there is not 
much missing to make it really run.

> Even if you make modifications to the open source XAA drivers
> accelerating render there is no guarantee that NVidia/ATI will pick
> them up. Chasing that path to accelerating Cairo performance is
> ultimately a dead end.

If the hooks are easy, I'd be surprised if NVidia/ATI would not pick them up. 
They have done quite some work in the past, and the Render acceleration that 
is in the commercial Nvidia driver now is promising.

Cheers,
Lars