On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Elliot Glaysher (Chromium)
<e...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Antoine Labour <pi...@google.com> wrote:
>> For the UI bits, I'm willing to believe that GTK, which uses cairo, hence
>> XRender for rendering, is hardware accelerated and in any case pipelined in
>> another process (X), and so is faster than serialized, software rendered
>> Skia. How much is the impact ? I don't know, we're not talking a huge amount
>> of pixels, but still...
>
> Not only GTK mode. On linux, we upload (most of) the theme images to
> the X server so blitting the images is done server side and
> (hopefully) hardware accelerated.
>
> Off the top of my head, the tabstrip and the floating bookmark bar are
> the only pieces of the linux UI drawn with skia.
The download completion disks in the shelf probably too for what it's worth.
>
> -- Elliot
>
> >
>
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