Xegl lives!

[Jon Smirl]

On 5/24/05, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 May 2005 15:14, 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.
> 
> Do you have numbers to back up that claim?  I'd be particularly interested in
> comparing glitz performance to the normal Render core on Xati or on nVidia's
> driver.

The have been dozens of Cairo benchmarks posted to the Cairo group.
I'm actually being conservative, sometimes glitz wins by 100x.
Probably best to ask in the cairo group for recent numbers.

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Jon Smirl
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