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X11 Chrome Reportedly Outperforms Windows and Mac Versions

Posted by timothy on from the please-keep-it-that-way dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a curious contrast to conventional wisdom, there are reports of X11 Chromium being faster than Windows or Mac versions. In the thread titled 'Why is Linux Chrome so fast?,' a developer speculates that it is due to the use of X11 capabilities: 'On X-windows [sic], the renderer backingstores are managed by the X server, and the transport DIBs are also managed by the X server. So, we avoid a lot of memcpy costs incurred on Windows due to keeping the backingstores in main memory there.' Has the design of X11 withstood the test of time better than people tend to give it credit for?"

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  1. Test of time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Has the design of X11 withstood the test of time better than people tend to give it credit for?"

    Yes of course it has. X11 is great and anyone who thinks otherwise doesn't understand it properly, or have an accurate idea of what it's genuine problems are actually due to.

    1. Re:Test of time by eugene2k · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why is this modded funny?

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    2. Re:Test of time by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Forget about the gp, why is THIS modded funny?

    3. Re:Test of time by supersloshy · · Score: 4, Funny

      And God forbid that I continue the joke and say, "Why is /THIS/ modded funny!?"

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    4. Re:Test of time by Tetsujin · · Score: 3, Funny

      Forget about the gp, why is THIS modded funny?

      Because if you say "why is this modded funny" and "this" isn't modded funny, then people get confused...

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    5. Re:Test of time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      This is not funny.

    6. Re:Test of time by awshidahak · · Score: 4, Funny

      Ooh, ooh, I wanna be cool and popular. Why is /THIS/ modded funny!?!?!?!?!?!?!?. Dang, where's the confused smiley button.

    7. Re:Test of time by Thinboy00 · · Score: 3, Funny

      you guys are hilarious.

      Why isn't this modded redundant?

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  2. Re:X11 Chromium on Mac? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Right now the Chromium download page only supplies Linux and Windows versions:

    http://www.reptilelabour.com/software/chromium/download.htm

  3. Re:X11 has never been a problem. by jellomizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    So you are saying it is not X11 that is slow but Linux... Oh man you are taking it out of the frying pan and into the fire.

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  4. Re:Ummm... by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, at least the first one was succinct.

  5. Re:Even if X is usually slower... by everynerd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Give the guy a break. He's only trying to create synergy among web-enabled paradigms.

  6. Re:20% faster on his 20% faster machine.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "X11 fanboi"? Like, seriously!?

  7. Re:Other performance gains by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A Qt build of chromium exists, and is normally known as "konqueror".

  8. Re:X11 has never been a problem. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Naaaaaah, he means B-BUS, you funky honky!

  9. Re:Firefox did that already by Loki_666 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Quote: 500+ tabs open simultaneously

    You are shitting us? How the hell can you get anything done with 500+ tabs open simultaneously? I don't think its memory leaks thats your problem. I think its the sound of the entire OS deciding enough is enough and its going to take a break.

  10. Re:What is this "X11?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    For added laughs, I just read that the next Microsoft graphical library is going to be called DirectX 11.

    A bit like publishing (a few years after ODF) a document format in the shape of a zipped XML file and dubbing it "Office Open XML", I'm guessing..

  11. Re:Even if X is usually slower... by Zordak · · Score: 3, Funny

    Really? I thought he was trying to leverage the cloud architecture to optimize his software services enterprise based on open standards.

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  12. Re:So in other words by awshidahak · · Score: 2, Funny

    My dragged windows don't tear. They wobble.