Re: [linux-audio-user] gnome-terminal performance

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] gnome-terminal performance
From: Fryderyk Dziarmagowski (freetz_AT_gmx.net)
Date: Sun Aug 01 2004 - 00:44:42 EEST

--- Lee Revell <rlrevell_AT_joe-job.com> wrote:

> I am surprised no one has mentioned the real reason gnome-terminal is
> such a CPU hog - font anti-aliasing. The GNOME people say this needs
> to be hardware accelerated for decent performance, and that none of
> the current video drivers do this. However, Windows does the same
> thing on the same machine WAY faster. So either the Linux video
> drivers are buggy, or Windows has a 100x faster way to anti-alias
> fonts.

it is slow even with accellerated render extension (tried with xig
radeon drivers, X.org HEAD with Eric Anholt accellerated Render ext for
radeon). I'm using it _without_ AA and it is still much slower then
xterm/aterm/whateverterm.

this helps a little bit:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143914 

-- 
Fryderyk Dziarmagowski
PLD Linux Distribution

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