From: Daryll S. <da...@pr...> - 2000-02-24 22:49:34
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On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 09:36:46PM +0200, László Késmárki wrote: > Is it possible to create a DRI like stuff that improves 2D acceleration. > Because as I experienced the current X technology is still noticeable > slower than GUIs using direct access (example Windows GUI). Possible, sure. The DRI is meant to be agnostic about what API is run on top of it. OpenGL still has a few special hooks into the DRI that it shouldn't, but those can and should be removed. Beyond that I'm not sure it is really a good idea. You are comparing apples and oranges when you compare X and Windows. You need to be very careful in analyzing where the performance difference is coming from. I haven't done that so, I can't say for sure, but my gut feeling is that it isn't the performance of getting commands onto the graphics card, so changing to a DRI solution may not make a difference. - |Daryll |