On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:46:45AM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > Numbers would be a fantastic thing to introduce to the discussion here, > if anyone has them. I'm generally not fond of handwavey performance > decisions in the name of low-end machines without some proof. That might be difficult. How many such systems are still alive, and are still capable of running X? :-) > I can personally attest that at least for the OLPC machine, which has a > pretty crippled FPU, the performance problem for font rendering appeared > to be the rendering itself, and not so much font load and metric time. > But I don't have numbers immediately at hand to back that up. (And OLPC > ended up dropping xfs for footprint reasons anyway.) Keep in mind that I was talking about 11-12 years ago, when nobody (I knew) had >100MHz systems. Why did (does?) font rendering block all other operations in the X server anyway? That was the real source of the problem. (For all I know, this could have been fixed a decade ago though. I had a FPU in all my systems, so I never cared that much. ;-) Steve -- Steven Pritchard - K&S Pritchard Enterprises, Inc. Email: steve@xxxxxxxxx http://www.kspei.com/ Phone: (618)398-3000 Mobile: (618)567-7320 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
