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Hardware Based XRender Slower than Software Rendering?

Posted by michael on from the unsolved-mysteries dept.

Neon Spiral Injector writes "Rasterman of Enlightenment fame has finally updated the news page of his personal site. It seems that the behind the scenes work for E is coming along. He is investigating rendering backends for Evas. The default backend is a software renderer written by Raster. Trying to gain a little more speed he ported it to the XRender extension, only to find that it became 20-50 times slower on his NVidia card. He has placed some sample code on this same news page for people to try, and see if this is also experienced on other setups."

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  1. Hmm.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Maybe the guy should learn how to code, huh?

  2. Wait a second... by Sp4c3+C4d3t · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wasn't this guy preaching the death of the Linux desktop not very long ago?

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  3. Packard Bell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I have a Packard Bell 486 that can FUCK YOU IN THE ASS. That's right folks, it's so queer, it can actually FUCK YOU IN THE ASS!!

  4. Re:Can you learn to spell? by terrox · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    yu suk, sif u wud B dat dum.

    ^ is that the kind of sentences you want to read every day?

    Maybe you haven't bothered to read the news before commenting.