So is the poor resize performance seen on Nvidia cards caused by the drivers and not compiz?
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 12:38 -0400, David Reveman wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 09:41 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: > > Anders Storsveen wrote: > > > how can vista resizing and redrawing be so fast, while compiz and osx' > > > resizing is slow? as I understand it, vista also uses composition in > > > their aero-glass stuff too. > > > > ???? > > > > Seems pretty fast resizing here? Can you be more descriptive? Do you > > mean on certain applications adapting to the resized space and changing > > their layout accordingly (e.g. a webpage in Firefox) or do you mean > > literally the resizing part (that part which compiz does)? > > Compiz has very little to do with resize performance. It's all about > offscreen memory management and how fast applications can redraw. Any > alternative resize modes that compiz might use like stretching is only > ways to avoid resizing. > > There's server side changes that can be made to improve resize > performance but not much that can be done in compiz itself. > > btw, if you've been able to use the video plugin and the video interface > I added recently you'll see how good resize performance you can get when > the server and application doesn't have to be involved. > > - David > > _______________________________________________ > compiz mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz
