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?"

Comments

Re:Test of time

[Anonymous Coward]

It sure does stand the test of time - instead, those who program for X11 are the ones that take the toll, in the form of impotence, receding hairline etc.

No NTLM, no Respect

[KWolfe81]

Until Chrome starts supporting NTLM, I know it will not get any respect at my firm, and likely many others....

Re:Other performance gains

[Blakey Rat]

Give me a larger-than-trivial Qt application, and I (almost) guarantee I can find a bug in it in less than half an hour.

You are, however, correct that most of my experience of shit-ily ported software is based on GTK+. But it's *so* embarrassingly shitty, it amazes me that the Pidgin developers would even want to release a Windows build, if that's the best they can manage.