Re: Xft performance
Re: Xft performance
- Subject: Re: Xft performance
- From: Jerry Talkington <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:52:12 -0700
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 03:39:02PM +0200, Eric Knauel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using an editor that runs on FreeBSD and OS X and uses Xft to draw
> the text buffers. I got the impression that Xft drawing is
> considerably slower on OS X. Actually, on a slow FreeBSD machine it's
> not possible to see how the editor draws the text, while on a fast OS
> X machine I can watch that closely. I don't know how to measure the
> Xft performance exactly, so this is a bit wish-wash. However, since
> there appears to be such a great difference I wonder if there might be
> a technical reason for this. E. g. something like this: FreeBSD X11
> uses hardware acceleration and OS x doesn't.
You'll have to more specific if you want a meaningful answer (i.e. what
versions of X11 are you running?, which version of Xft is the app trying
to use? What is the program?)
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