Linked by Guillaume Maillard on Thu 10th Oct 2002 05:44 UTC
Being a BeOS user (a purely desktop system) and because I code under Linux, I see XFree86 (v4.1 on my machine) as a user and as a developper. And this is where the problem lies. My Gnome or KDE desktops are slow in comparison with other operating systems, but XFree86, the 'engine' behind these desktops, proves me that it's not. Let's look at what I have in front of me: a dual Pentium III at 933Mhz with 512MB of memory, a Radeon 32 AIW, a modified Mandrake 8.0 powered by kernel 2.4.18.
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On XFree4.2 , GeForce4 MX 420
) but it needs a lot of improvments.
- draw 79500 lines/s
- copy/blit 3360 100x100 bitmaps/s from RAM to FB (or RAM to GRAM)
- copy/blit 18300 100x100 bitmaps/s from GRAM to FB (or GRAM to GRAM)
For the 2 first operations, its 3-4 faster than with the Radeon, but for pure blitting, it's a bit slower.
Anyway, it changes nothing at the conclusion, XFree is fast
(and faster on GeForce4
If you need binaries: http://blueos.free.fr/Static.tar.gz
it's still faster than any X window manager
Regards,
Guillaume