Soeren Sandmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The key thing to understand is this: > > Reading from video memory is *incredibly* slow. > > This shows up in various ways. When RENDER is implemented by the X > server in software this is what happens:
While this is all true, I think it's far more likely that Federico's case may just be some bugs or missing optimizations, especially since the original poster had a GTK+ 2.6 system working quite well without RENDER, but clearly using Xft for all text. -Billy _______________________________________________ Performance-list mailing list Performance-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/performance-list
