Hardware Based XRender Slower than Software Rendering?

Posted by michael on Friday August 15, 2003 @04:13PM 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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Re:2D acceleration using OpenGL? by Mr+Z · 2003-08-15 22:43 · Score: 1, Troll

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."

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