-[[meta title="What EXA gets right already"]]
+[[!meta title="What EXA gets right already"]]
-[[tag exa performance xorg]]
+[[!tag exa performance xorg]]
I've been writing various posts about [[EXA|tag/exa]] for a couple of
months now. And for the most part, they've been fairly negative,
So, briefly here, I want to mention a couple of things that EXA is
doing a fine job with. The first is the big reason why you don't want
to run an X server with NoAccel: scrolling will hurt very badly. Take
-a look at these rates for a window-to-window copy of a
-rectangle of various sizes.
+a look at these rates for a window-to-window copy of a rectangle of
+various sizes. These results are from "x11perf -copywinwinX" and
+multiplied by the number of pixels in each operation.
[All tests here are with very recent checkouts of xserver, mesa, and
xf86-video-intel. Tests are run on an Intel Core 2 CPU @ 2.13GHz with
Second, let's look at another common operation, filling solid
rectangles. This is an essential step in almost any rending, (for
clearing to the background color), as well as for actually rendering
-some content.
+some content. These results are from "x11perf -rectX", again
+multiplied by the number of pixels in each operation.
[[rectangle-fill.png]]