Xgl server

[Jon Smirl]

On Sun,  7 Nov 2004 22:32:17 +0100, c99drn at cs.umu.se <c99drn at cs.umu.se> wrote:
> Quoting Jon Smirl <jonsmirl at gmail.com>:
> 
> > On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:24:08 -0500, Jim Gettys <jim.gettys at hp.com> wrote:
> > > This is absolutely, stupendously wonderful!
> >
> > Dave, how much faster would you say XGL is than the current X server?
> > Have any simple benchmarks from the parts of the system that work?
> > Even without benchmarks, how much faster does it feel, is the
> > difference obvious to a normal user?
> 
> That's very hard to say. I don't know how well OpenGL's line drawing and bit
> blitting compares to a well accelerated XOrg driver, but I dought it's faster.
> However, if it's slower, I don't think it's so much slower that there's a
> problem.
> 
> It's important to know that glitz and XGL are designed to be fast at RENDER. So
> applications that use RENDER, like a composite manager or a cairo application,

Won't Cairo applications use glitz when DRI is available? Has an API
been sorted out yet to automatically switch between glitz and xlib
backends when DRI is there? Cairo/glitz on DRI will direct reader
bypassing XGL so it's drawing speed won't matter.

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Jon Smirl
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