From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 31 02:21:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B9001065673 for ; Mon, 31 May 2010 02:21:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unixmania@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ECED8FC14 for ; Mon, 31 May 2010 02:21:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws10 with SMTP id 10so665478vws.13 for ; Sun, 30 May 2010 19:21:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=OEwKq0PaiZkVylxtdSp1B/SlTcVuk3dciltLf5wSaks=; b=xJQMWVMu4QNx7uHyqV8O4LiVi2G0Toso621/eR+btHa+xZlp7qFAqXch+zebOWeD8T jQY5tnyz96n85YD6yFR6yGWpxBQnBX5dq5bnlpgljYNq0KaInS8sgftcJVWo9GQNcH0X iWdn1hcD2TaHt/boeyG854Y6Xi7Bjc6Cao+yk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=p8G0S1v6IDHX8css5hWMR/pxn/0xLSZtBBZLGM+G72LMCkAR60r4gr+BbE11j3EbY7 9IC0/w4Lxd/FDkSOjFcniFTKWXR0udtG1Xk0j74TAZPKa/sYePYa+0CQ/SmJ2Aj2NaTp xZJlW87lCfyuU7iM/+UfhI2E19tXU7vhQoQP8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.72.132 with SMTP id m4mr1330446qaj.145.1275272488066; Sun, 30 May 2010 19:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.3.143 with HTTP; Sun, 30 May 2010 19:21:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 23:21:27 -0300 Message-ID: From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" To: Eitan Adler Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libxcb message - is it still relevant X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 02:21:29 -0000 On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Carlos A. M. dos Santos > wrote: >> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: >>> As far as I could tell xcb is currently the default Xlib. Is the >>> following message that libXcb is experimental still true? > ... >> >> No, but if the - informal - experiments I made are correct the claims >> about "dramatic improvements in speed" are an exaggeration. > > It would be nice if the message were removed. > About the speed - what kind of experiments did you perform? Mostly ran x11perf with and without XCB enabled and compared the results. Unfortunately the test was not complete because it led the X server to crash[1]. Not a surprise, considering the miserable state of Xorg regarding QA. 1. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2009-December/009261.html -- Not so young, but still crying out Full of anger full of doubt