On Nov 1, 2008, at 10:14 PM, James Cornell wrote:

> Might explain why my experience with Solaris 10 was better than Linux
> (Gentoo) on my former Ultra 2 (Dual 400) in the Firefox 1.5 days.

Firefox uses cairo for HTML rendering since 3.0.
>
>
> What other applications does XRender affect?
>

For GNOME 2.2x, GTK+ uses cairo, so basically every GNOME application.
But the performance issue of cairo without XRender was solved in cairo  
1.7.x.

Ginn


> James

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Ginn Chen
Software Engineer, Browser Team
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Phone: x82869 / +86-10-62673869
Fax: +86-10-62780969


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