On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaala...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:20:34 +0200 > Olivier BLIN <olivier.b...@softathome.com> wrote: > >> On 07/25/2012 05:00 PM, Pekka Paalanen wrote: >> > Gears will now need the same disclaimer as glxgears has, otherwise end >> > users will start using this as a generic Wayland performance >> > benchmark. I can imagine some headlines on Phoronix when they compare >> > Wayland gears with glxgears and draw wildly incorrect conclusions. I >> > hope you will add a message explaining what this "fps" number really >> > means and what it can be used for. Thanks, pq >> Right, it would only make sense for a fps count sensibly lower than page >> flip or refresh frequency. >> >> This small patch has been useful for me with a fullscreen 1080p gears, >> to check that llvmpipe was performing faster than DRI (using a software >> fallback on Intel Q35). >> But I agree that with better performing hardware or drivers, it would >> not be a good metric. >> >> Should I still rework the patch with a warning message? > > Personally I would like to see that, yeah, but it's up to krh, really. > Can't hurt? Could be a follow-up patch, too.
Yeah, I think we should add the warning. Kristian _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
