On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 10:26 +0200, Tarjei Knapstad wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 02:46, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 07:02 -0400, Build System wrote: > <snip> > > accelerated graphics. Those without it shouldn't notice any difference. > > Don't get me wrong (and I'm not sure if you have). I think it might be the other way around :) (or we're both confused :)) > What I'm wanting to know is will people without hardware acceleration be > worse off. Are non-hw-accelerated users going to end up with a system > that runs something like non-hw-accelerated 3D (which really sucks, even > with a good processor)? Or will the rendering on non-hw-accelerated > systems be quite good, and rendering with hw-accelerated systems will be > brilliant? > What I was trying to say in the last line above was that users without hardware accelerated graphics shouldn't notice any performance hit compared to today. I would be highly surprised if this wasn't a design goal in Cairo given that all hardware accelerated graphics currently require the use of proprietary drivers (99.9% anyway...) which most of the FOSS community seems to bark at. Normal X window rendering should be on par or better than with current vector drawing libraries. I can't imagine that serious performance regressions against earlier vector drawing solutions won't be fixed before Cairo goes live in gtk+ etc. In short, I wouldn't worry too much. -- Tarjei -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
