On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Antoine Labour <[email protected]> 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. -- Elliot --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
