Re: Snappy GUI response

> The forthcoming 2.6 linux kernel is supposed to provide a lot of speed
> improvements in this area with it's much improved task switch latency.

The 2.4-ac tree has the O(1) scheduler as has stuff like Red Hat.

From my own poking around the main reason people see lack of snappy 
performance is twofold

	-	Using unaccelerated X setups
	-	The lack of render acceleration

At startup there are some problems with toolkits and with X protocol 
issues (Jim Gettys did a great talk on this) and a chunk of similar things
with loading binaries, disk head algorithms and similar kernel areas.

Once apps are running the big one is the lack of support in X drivers
for "dma block from screen to ram" or "dma block from screen to agp space"
both of which would make unaccelerated render way way faster