<div dir="ltr">That explains why the NVidia macbook is just happy as a clam with gnome3 and the Acer POS-express with crappy video chip is a snail.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Solomon Peachy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pizza@shaftnet.org" target="_blank">pizza@shaftnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 01:59:53PM -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:<br>
> Oh, and I would LOVE to have someone explain to me WHY a desktop manager<br>
> would have such a profound performance impact on an application and<br>
> display that I would have thought would be spending most of it's time<br>
> talking with X through the widget sets. The mystery to me is why using<br>
> GNOME as the desktop manager should even matter to an application like<br>
> that, but it was and it was reproducible.<br>
<br>
</span>Basically, GNOME3 is built on top of pure OpenGL, and if your system has<br>
crummy GL capabilities, it ends up resorting to a software rendering<br>
fallback that is quite slow (and CPU intensive)<br>
<br>
One could make an argument that they could have provided a non-GL<br>
fallback path, but that's another matter entirely.<br>
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