On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 17:06 +0200, Tarjei Knapstad wrote: > 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 > If anyone who hasn't upgraded to the newest rawhide ( Unfortunately I jumped the gun before thinking about it ) wants to collect some numbers. I would suggest grabbing gtkperf http://gtkperf.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=testing&id=1 and running a test case, before and after gtk2 with cairo support. I actually think so far the update feels a bit faster, however some definitive numbers would be interesting. Jon -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
