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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. 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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  2. 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.

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

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

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

    Why is this modded funny?

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