Re: Fwd: How will cairo influence GTK's performance?

[Richard Stellingwerff <remenic gmail com>]

On 7/21/05, Billy Biggs <vektor dumbterm net> wrote:
>   Resizing mozilla tests your window manager and mozilla's rendering
> more than GTK+ itself.

Correct, but both use GDK to draw their things, so what makes this
different from any GTK widget, that uses GDK internally as well?

> However, since you're seeing differences between
> drivers, you might want to look at raw throughput to the card.  Compare
> the output of this command (let it run to completion, bonus points: run
> without a window manager and let it be the only client):
> 
>     x11perf -shmput500
>
>   On a 24-bit display, you should see numbers over 200. 

267.0/s on average on the NVidia box (1,33GHz Athlon with Geforce FX 5200)
275.0/s on average on the Ati box (930MHz Mobile Athlon XP with Ati
Mobility 9200)