Re: Some considerations

Jon Smirl <jonsmirl-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- [email protected] wrote:
> > A key performance question will be where does the font bitmap cache live,
> AGP 
> > or VRAM? 
> Does it really matter? AGP texturing is reasonably fast, and I highly doubt 
> you're going to significantly eat into AGP's 1-2GB/sec of memory bandwidth
> just 
> composing glyphs. 
> 

It's the other way around. The performance is copying the composed glyphs over
and over again into the app windows.

=====
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl-/[email protected]

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