Linked by Kroc Camen on Thu 20th Aug 2009 09:43 UTC
What else would we talk about other than the massively [popular|controversial] article about X.org last week. We try and address a number of concerns about the article and common lines of reasoning / misunderstanding. Lastly, we move onto something completely different with topics on Google Chrome on Linux, IE6 and the two details we know about RockMelt: Rock. Melt.
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RE[2]: independence from X
by PlatformAgnostic on Thu 20th Aug 2009 22:12
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Qt's raster back-end runs faster on X as well in most cases. The major drawback is increased memory consumption, as each application has to maintain it's own glyph cache for drawing fonts, rather than relying on the X server to do it for them.
Oh, and it completely kills network performance, of course.
Obviously the ideal would be to use OpenGL for everything. Qt's OpenGL back-end beats the raster engine (often by a wide margin), but comes with it's own share of problems.