EXA

[Lukas Hejtmanek]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 08:02:30PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > Here's a new patch that seems to help workspace switching here with
> > > metacity. Please let me know how it goes for you.
> > 
> > Not exactly, 
> 
> You're saying it doesn't help at all for you?

I think it *is* better but still not so good as XAA. It is a bit tricky
because it is only subjective benchmark, no real numbers can be obtained.

> > there is a path that does migration. And I realized that migration
> > is nonsense in case of PolyFill as memcpy takes actually more time than it is
> > saved by accelerated PolyFill.
> 
> The memcpy you're referring to is probably for a software fallback
> though, isn't it? In the case of my Firefox it seems to be a small
> stippled fill that causes the whole window pixmap to be migrated out.

I do not know how to debug this one (what operations are requested).

> BTW, have you tried Option "MigrationHeuristic" "smart" or "greedy" to
> see if either works better for you?

No, but I can try it and let you know.

> > XML sysprof is attached. Anyway, thanks a lot for your time.
> 
> Unfortunately, my sysprof refuses to open this: 'Could not open
> new-exa.txt: Id 137767120 doesn't reference any record or list'.

OK, so I took screenshot, it is attached.

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Lukáš Hejtmánek
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