Re: [Dri-devel] Gains from doing 2D drawing using OpenGL/mesa

[Ian R. <id...@us...>]

Jon Smirl wrote:

> This is a post from the Cairo list. It benchmarks a Cairo program against image,
> xrender, glx implementations of Cario. You can see that 2D drawing is a the
> minimum 10x faster and sometimes 200x or more when using the 3D hardware. Data
> like this is the driving force for bring up xserver on a standalone OpenGL/mesa
> platform.

I can say with almost absolute certainty that none of the current 
open-source drivers would be able to achieve those levels of performance.