[Xquartz-dev] Lastest X11 is slow in video output?

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

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.