#4204: Xorg Intel Driver
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Reporter: jon lee | Owner: blfs-book@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: current
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: Intel Xorg |
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Comment (by ken@…):
I do have intel hardware, but I'm still waiting for performance metrics.
Those of us using KMS (that should include everyone using the intel
driver) know that frames per second is synchronized to the vertical
refresh rate, so I don't have any idea *how* a runtime performance
improvement is being measured. I'm not ruling it out, just reserving
judgement.
Much, if not most, of the book can probably be built with clang. At least
one package had a problem with it in the past few months, but so far I
don't see any reason to add a comment about using clang for this
particular package.
Equally, I don't think that any benefit from faster compilation, if it
exists, will be material. On my 7.4 intel machine, configure for the
driver takes 4.699s, make -j1 takes 47.003s, and a DESTDIR install 0.306s.
Call it 52 seconds.
Until we see some hard evidence, this sounds suspiciously like adding go-
faster stripes to a car.
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