On 7/20/05, Billy Biggs <vektor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Richard Stellingwerff (remenic@xxxxxxxxx): > > > FWIW, I noticed that GTK+2 performance is a LOT better on my Ati > > Mobility 9200 with DRI drivers than my NVidia FX5200 with nvidia > > drivers. Ati's proprietary drivers are just as slow as NVidia's, at 2D > > performance. > > How are you measuring this? > > Is there a way you could create a programmatic benchmark (or a command > line that does not require user interaction)? User perception. But the difference is so huge, that I can tell with absolute certainty that it's there. I just can't give you any numbers to show much faster it is. Things I notice it with are most notably Mozilla. With ati-drivers and nvidia-glx, resizing the Mozilla window is pretty slow, ie. the window's contents lag from its border very notably. Scrolling a huge page like slashdot (comments section) skips a lot, and just feels sluggish overall. With the DRI drivers however, resizing the window is a LOT smoother, and scrolling trough the entire page is smooth as silk, no matter how hard I pull that scrollbar :P Ofcourse, it would be better to have a real benchmark. One such app that could prove useful here, is GtkPerf (http://gtkperf.sf.net/). I will run a few tests this afternoon and post the results here, to see if they match my perception. _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
