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Hardware Based XRender Slower than Software Rendering?
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."
Keith please explain this! This shouldnt happen.
Also how many more years will it take before Linux can compete with OSX? 5 more years? Maybe 10? We have forever and a day you know.
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The parent is correct. You are not. It's not optimal, or even fair, but it's true. Arguing with people that "you can have everything you want" under Linux won't get you far because its clearly false.
Christ, have you been permanently disfigured by a creative writing class or something? And what does any of this have to do with the topic at hand? Jeez. Do you know anything about XRender or evas? Or do you just reflexively rehash this story any time it seems vaguely appropriate? How does your meandering demented pontification contribute to the question why XRender performs slower? What "design lessons" are to be learned from a 20 year old solution to a problem that has long since been solved? Why don't you mention some actually germane examples, such as how "blitter" chips were displaced over the course of time by ever-faster CPUs? Bah humbug. Get a grip.
And, of course, in many ways Linux is NOT better. Evangelizing is all well and good, but know your audience.
I'll take the hint of the number of your comments modded "troll", and not bite on this one.
~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?
I read as far as "MP3 video." WTF? MPEG Audio Layer 3 is an audio layer for MPEG-2 Video streams. (We just happen to ship audio-only streams because MP3 is good at encoding music.) MP3 Video? It's like saying "training-wheel bicycle" or "non-dairy creamer coffee beans."
Like the other poster said, can I have a hit of what you're tokin'?
--JoeProgram Intellivision!
How do you know? You dont even use Linux.
Windows won because you have to present an alternative thats worth making the effort to switch to (anyone who's second to market will tell you this is hard). Telling someone that they have to spend time (and often money) in order to get back to where they are now because "Linux is better" is just going to get them pissed off.
Until they get the MSblaster worm. Thats when you switch them to Linux.
And, of course, in many ways Linux is NOT better. Evangelizing is all well and good, but know your audience.
Yes Windows has better fonts and eye candy, so does OSX, but in terms of software Windows no longer has the advantage, most important Windows software runs in Linux, even the games.
No one has to be convinced that Linux is better, once Linux is preinstalled next to the Windows machine, and a person can choose a Lindows computer or a Windows computer from a store, people on their own will choose Lindows when they think back to why they are upgrading in the first place (well Windows keeps crashing, I got infected by MSblaster, I need to save money, I think I'll go with Linux)
People will choose Linux if Linux has the same exact software, a cheaper price, and is virus proof.
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