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Intel's Linux OpenGL Driver Faster Than Apple's OS X Driver
An anonymous reader writes "The open-source Intel Linux graphics driver has hit a milestone of now being faster than Apple's own OpenGL stack on OS X. The Intel Linux driver on Ubuntu 13.04 is now clearly faster than Apple's internally-developed Intel OpenGL driver on OS X 10.8.3. when benchmarked from a 'Sandy Bridge' class Mac Mini. Only some months ago, Apple's GL driver was still trouncing the Intel Linux Mesa driver."
I do not believe there are better Xorg drivers available in Linux, including NVidia.
The problem with the intel drivers is that no matter what settings I try all the video playback through emacs is CHOPPY AS HELL!. It's unreadable. The Xorg drivers from NVIdia at least can deinterlace without crashing, but they are still choppy. I'll wait for the Ubuntu version.
Great news for all those OpenGL games out there like Minecraft and um....
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Nice nickname you got there. Wonder where the inspiration came from. Achem, now, on to the commentary!
Well, that is great news, but if Intel played a hand in its development, then that would only make sense if Intel did NOT play a hand in helping Apple develop the Apple version of the OpenGL driver.
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Since Intel is the creator of the architecture for the video hardware in question, it would be only sensible for Intel assisted development to be better than development that occured without Intel's help.
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Either way, go go Gnu/Linux (and open source!) !!!
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video playback through emacs
I think I figured out your problem...
No, I'm pretty sure "depreciated" is right, since no ceasefire has been called. Think of it as a more tongue-in-cheek equivalent, along the lines of PHP deprecation, which actually means "popular."
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No, I'm pretty sure "depreciated" is right, since no ceasefire has been called. Think of it as a more tongue-in-cheek equivalent, along the lines of PHP deprecation, which actually means "popular."
Snarky. I like it! You get my stamp of approval. And you're right, that does seem to be how PHP develops. But more seriously, the 'gnu/linux' tag was an attempt to politicalize the kernel by RMS. He was sharply rebuffed by Linus and others. Most distributions are less... puritanical... about what to include. So when I say 'linux' for this driver, I mean all flavors, not just the 'pure' gnu/linux ones, hence the tag 'depreciated'. Also, I tagged it as such because I knew it would piss someone off and get me modded down. :D And it succeeded brilliantly at that, proving that there are at least a few of the old guard still lurking on slashdot.
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no matter what settings I try all the video playback through emacs is CHOPPY AS HELL!
During video playback, you should try to reduce the number of Eliza windows to less than five, and also refrain from running more than two other operating systems using the elisp engine as a VM.
Also it's well known that any system installations of VI or VIM will spike the processor during emacs use out of jealously; I suggest you delete them.
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