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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?"
Go to Time Warner News for more on this X11 Chrome vs. the "other brands." Lol, don't. I'm trolling in order to waste modpoints. :)
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Has the design of X11 withstood the test of time better than people tend to give it credit for?
No, this is just a freak occurrence noted by some guy on a Usenet forum (yeah, that's reliable). Nothing to get excited about, but it's Linux so lets pat ourselves on the back and roll around in a tub of our own awesomeness.
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.
Even If X is usually slower then other system it doesn't mean it is always slower for all applications... For most applications sadly X11 runs slower then Framebuffer based GUIs. However X11 does do better then the Framebuffer apps for apps that are better made for X. X11 is great at the vector based information, It does get bogged down on bitmapped images. Framebuffer OS GUI like Bitmaps much better then Vector Graphics.
It is not that X11 cant handle Bitmaps nor can Framebuffer handle Vector well. But X11 does Vector better.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Of course it's faster. What would you expect? That WINDOWS (aka Mr. Bloated)'s version of Chrome is faster that Mac or Linux's versions? What did you smoke this morning?
How could anyone be surprised the greatest achievement in OS history has the fastest running software and in this case browser!
Until Chrome starts supporting NTLM, I know it will not get any respect at my firm, and likely many others....
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Most (all now?) graphics cards are hardware accelerated for the Windows GDI, for things like drawing fonts, arcs, ellipses, fills, etc.
For whatever reason, Linux drivers have NEVER taken advantage of this, and that is why Linux often looks clunky compared to Windows on the same hardware.
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
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.
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