Bug#586373: libgtk2.0-0: huge performance decrease if Xorg's RENDER extension is disabled

[Josselin Mouette]

Le vendredi 18 juin 2010 à 23:56 +0200, Martin Monperrus a écrit :
> Because of a bug in a video driver, I had to disable Xorg's RENDER extension.
> As a result, the performance of GTK decreased significantly, and the
> applications on top of GTK, including Firefox and Eclipse, are almost
> unusable:
> 
> gtkperf with RENDER: 11s
> gtkperf without RENDER: 40s

GTK+ and Pango heavily rely on RENDER indeed. Instead of disabling it
entirely on the server side, you should disable only hardware
acceleration if it’s what causes trouble in your driver.

Cheers,
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