On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:40, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 10:26 +0200, Tarjei Knapstad wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 02:46, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 07:02 -0400, Build System wrote:
<snip>
> accelerated graphics. Those without it shouldn't notice any
difference.
Don't get me wrong (and I'm not sure if you have).
I think it might be the other way around :) (or we're both confused :))
What I'm wanting to know is will people without hardware
acceleration be
worse off. Are non-hw-accelerated users going to end up with a system
that runs something like non-hw-accelerated 3D (which really sucks, even
with a good processor)? Or will the rendering on non-hw-accelerated
systems be quite good, and rendering with hw-accelerated systems will be
brilliant?
What I was trying to say in the last line above was that users without
hardware accelerated graphics shouldn't notice any performance hit
compared to today. I would be highly surprised if this wasn't a design
goal in Cairo given that all hardware accelerated graphics currently
require the use of proprietary drivers (99.9% anyway...) which most of
the FOSS community seems to bark at.
Normal X window rendering should be on par or better than with current
vector drawing libraries. I can't imagine that serious performance
regressions against earlier vector drawing solutions won't be fixed
before Cairo goes live in gtk+ etc.
In short, I wouldn't worry too much.
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Tarjei