Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 23:21:27 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libxcb message - is it still relevant Message-ID: <AANLkTinEJ52dXNtmCBM7idR6F3SSvb280Xo38Gfx-w9R@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinUI0JZOF4msIskhWYn2roSbT8hRaWE8Ra0_POu@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTik9QWWpfXamvkp6yQA8GhoyQ639G7Lcfdv2vOHA@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimGINDoWbxaf0QoEDya0L4GAQ1cxWk5yPCT2VH2@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinUI0JZOF4msIskhWYn2roSbT8hRaWE8Ra0_POu@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Carlos A. M. dos Santos > <unixmania@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> 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
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