How does one check whether XRENDER is accelerated?

[Samium Gromoff]

> i can't say for others - but i have written 2 tools that basically give u a
> reasonable idea of overall render accel
> 
> http://www.rasterman.com/files/render_bench.tar.gz
> 
> is an old benchmarker that pits xrender against software equivalent rendering.
> it gives one view of gneral render performance as opposed to "diy" in software
> client-side.
> 
> another (more recent and more expansive) is evas - it has full xrender suport
> as well as software rendering, opengl, directfb, etc. etc.
> 
> you basically can just tun the test program (that sits and benchmrks each
> engine) and see the benchmark values u get at the end.
> 
> http://enlightenment.freedesktop.org/fetch.php?file=evas-0.9.9.023.tar.gz
> 
> - just bild, install then run the evas_*_test programs and they will spew out a
> benchmark to stdout. the higher the value - the faster the engine's rendering.

According to the evas backend tests:

evas_xrender_x11_test:
####################################################
# Performance Test. Your system scores...
####################################################
# FRAME COUNT: 1057 frames
# TIME:        20.016 seconds
# AVERAGE FPS: 52.807 fps
####################################################
# Your system Evas Benchmark:
#
# EVAS BENCH: 0.880
#
####################################################
evas_software_x11_test:
####################################################
# Performance Test. Your system scores...
####################################################
# FRAME COUNT: 6779 frames
# TIME:        20.004 seconds
# AVERAGE FPS: 338.885 fps
####################################################
# Your system Evas Benchmark:
#
# EVAS BENCH: 5.648
#
####################################################
evas_buffer_test:
####################################################  
# Performance Test. Your system scores...
####################################################
# FRAME COUNT: 6391 frames
# TIME:        20.002 seconds
# AVERAGE FPS: 319.521 fps
####################################################
# Your system Evas Benchmark:
#
# EVAS BENCH: 5.325
#
####################################################

It appears that XRENDER is a dog, for some reason...

Also, a side note: the XRENDER test gave a SIGSEGV on the test 36
called "lines".