Apparently, though unproven, at 21:25 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly:
> > About two months ago I did reboot into a gentoo kernel and things did > > feel a little different but not in a way I could put my fingers on. I > > put it down to running a huge compile in screen. I do feel the > > incremental improvements in KDE since about 4.3, mostly because new > > versions come out rapidly. > > > > What do you perceive with BFS vs mainline/gentoo/whatever? > > Less stalls in animations. A classic example is mplayer stalling when I > move the mouse over the clock to the right of the system tray in KDE. > KDE will fade-in a pop-up that contains details about the current date. > For the duration of the fade-in, mplayer will stop playing frames. > This is a "stall." It seems that the compositor of KDE gets way more > CPU than it should resulting in mplayer starving for CPU. With BFS, > this does not happen. I'm running 2.6.36-ck-r2 and mplayer is smooth as a baby's backside - KDE animations have no effect on that. The two things that do slow my desktop down are when nepomuk decides to do it's thing (and I still haven't found a way to tweak how aggresively it does that) and when kontact can't find the imap server on Exchange. It's been so long since I used a vanilla or gentoo kernel I honestly can't recall what it was like. And testing it means a reboot. Hopefully when I next reboot I'll remember what to compare against. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
