Re: [Dri-devel] voodoo3 dri speed

[mitch <gt...@pr...>]

I haven't done much benchmarks on a wide variety of apps but I have
noticed that DRI is at least 10% slower than the 3.3.x setup in games
like Quake3. Btw, what's the status with dga support daryll? Did that
patch you got ever get worked on more by that guy to correct the problems
you reported?


Brian Paul wrote:

> Christian Zander wrote:
> >
> > Well, I guess this question has been asked a gazillion times
> > before, but I'd like to get your opinion on this:
> >
> > What makes the DRI so much slower than the glide2x/mesa setup?
>
> Actually, I haven't yet compared the two on identical hardware for
> myself.  Are you testing stand-alone Mesa 3.3+Glide2x against the DRI?
> Which apps are you testing?  What kind of results are you getting?
>
> I guess my only comment for now is that we haven't really spent
> much (any?) time on optimizing the DRI/tdfx driver yet.  We've been
> more concerned with correctness and reliability so far.
>
> -Brian
>
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