XRender acceleration

[Zack Rusin]

On Thursday 16 March 2006 15:26, you wrote:
> On Thursday 16 March 2006 14:48, Zack Rusin wrote:
> > Hey, [*1]
> >
> > we're doing better and better at accelerating XRender. Muchas problemos
> > that we have on the toolkit level are caused by the fact that we (*2)
> > have no idea what is accelerated.
>
> So why don't we have a useful Render performance benchmark?
>
> There's no useful way to report this information from the server that
> doesn't lead to polynomial code explosion on both sides.  What you actually
> need is a performance profile of the ops that matter and some user
> checkboxes that say "yes gradients are slow but I want them anyway".

That sounds like a good idea...

http://www.freedesktop.org/~zack/code/xrenderbenchmark.git/

Now can you provide me with a way of querying server/exa/driver version/vendor 
number that doesn't involve me scanning log files? (aka. is reasonable)

Zack