On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 19:42 +0100, Maarten Maathuis wrote: > - Apps like xterm can trigger a lot of fallback rendering. > - This can lead to (annoyingly) high latencies, because you > have to wait for the block handler. > - You need a driver that doesn't directly access the front > buffer to trigger this (NV50+ nouveau for example). > - Repeatingly doing dmesg on an xterm with a bitmap font > will reveal that you never see part of the text. > - I have recieved at least one complaint in the past of slow > terminal performance, which was related to core font > rendering. > - This does sacrifice some throughput, not sure how much,
Shouldn't be hard to measure. > but users tend to respond poorly to unexpected latency IMO. I'm sure some do, but I also suspect some do to unexpected slowness. :} -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
