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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: Slow AA and RGB text rendering
From:       Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= <michel () daenzer ! net>
Date:       2006-01-31 9:45:26
Message-ID: 1138700727.9397.172.camel () localhost
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On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 09:59 +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 22:30 -0500, debian@openserve.org wrote: 
> >> On the following machine:
> >> Athlon64 3000
> >> Nvidia GeForce 6600GT
> >> Kernel 2.6.14, Xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3
> >> (Render enabled and verified working, Composite disabled, GLX working) 
> >>
> >> I'm getting only 22 kchar/s using:  x11perf -rgb10text
> >> Even software rendering should not be THIS slow considering that...
> >>
> >> ..For comparison, I dug out a retired P2-266 laptop with a PCI S3 
> >> video chipset.  It hasn't been updated for years. (Kernel 2.6.1, 
> >> XFree86 4.2.1-16)  The same benchmark reported about 17 kchar/s.
> 
> If you're digging into this please also consider:
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4668
> (EXA subpixel glyph rendering terribly slow)

Given the machine specs above, it's very unlikely that he's using EXA.


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