Re: Thin Client Benchmark Testing

[Billy Biggs <vektor dumbterm net>]

Soeren Sandmann (sandmann daimi au dk):

> The key thing to understand is this:
> 
>         Reading from video memory is *incredibly* slow.
> 
> This shows up in various ways. When RENDER is implemented by the X
> server in software this is what happens:

  While this is all true, I think it's far more likely that Federico's
case may just be some bugs or missing optimizations, especially since
the original poster had a GTK+ 2.6 system working quite well without
RENDER, but clearly using Xft for all text.

  -Billy