Re: Snappy GUI response

Alan Cox <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.forum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Yes, scrolling long documents has finally become somewhat limited by text 
> output performance -- and that is actually more limited by frame buffer 
> read speed than anything else...

Its limited by the fact XFree86 doesn't know how to pull frame buffer
data properly. On PCI/AGP you have to push data from the card. The card
knows that, the bus knows that. XFree86 hasn't quite woken up to it.

To an extent its also limited by clients that assume the render extension
is better than client side
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