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X11 Chrome Reportedly Outperforms Windows and Mac Versions
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?"
It's great to listen to the fanbois and folks who don't know what they're talking about go on and on, but.... Quoted from someone above: After doing a fresh install on both systems the guy determined that it was just some sort of freak occurrence. He had one laptop with a 2.0ghz processor and another with a 2.4ghz processor and after the reinstall on both systems, VOILA...it was only roughly a 20% difference... TFA - just keep reading further and further down the usenet post --- Personally if someone does this type of comparison on different hardware, I wouldn't even bother to read their findings. If you can't be bothered to compare it on the same hardware (where there may still be driver differences for the various OSs, but at least you're minimizing the variables) you really shouldn't be posting.