Let me ask a different question: If someone else were willing to do the work of repairing and bringing rlAccel up to date, would it be welcome in the tree? On Jul 25, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
rlAccel was disabled around 2.1.x and hasn't been on since. It actually isn't a big concern. The fastpaths that it enabled are nice, but the pixman fastpaths are similar in nature, so I don't think we're suffering a big hit. Sure, it would be nicer to offload some of that from the CPU to the GPU, but it's not that critical. This is the first case where it has actually come up. I did some testing and actually re-enabled rlAccel and reran the xscreensaver, and it was only 9fps (as opposed to 7). So it is a slight improvement, but the bottleneck is certainly elsewhere.