Alan Coopersmith wrote: > - Is there an increase or decrease in application performance > when using the xcb-ified libX11?
Looks like the latest git commits fix a big performance drop: > Furthermore, the handoff approach provides great improvements to performance. > Results from x11perf's XNoOp test, which represented the worst case for the > lock-based Xlib/XCB: > > Traditional Xlib: average 19100000/sec > Lock-based Xlib/XCB: average 3350000/sec > Handoff-based Xlib/XCB: average 17400000/sec They also remove the locking assertions that caused compatibility problems for things such as Java versions with incorrectly built private copies of libXinerama. (Further details in the commit notes on http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=54e5c0941b0ded1628d559a9f0a3451ea96c299b ) Seems like we'd want the upcoming libxcb & libX11 releases when we're actually ready to integrate. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
