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+EXA is a modern acceleration architecture for the X server. It
+originally began its life as the acceleration mechanism in Keith
+Packard's "kdrive" X servers, but was ported to Xorg by Zack
+Rusin. EXA can be selected as the acceleration mechanism to be used by
+the X server with the following directive in the xorg.conf file:
+
+	# In the Device section, (might work elsewhere as well)
+	Option	"AccelMethod"	"exa"
+
+EXA is interesting to me since it provides the X device driver with
+the opportunity to accelerate Render extension requests, (which
+[cairo](http://cairographics.org) uses whenever possible when talking
+to an X server.
+
+Here are various posts I've made while measuring, evaluating, and
+trying to improve EXA performance and various drivers.
+
+Oh, and by the way, the cool people on the playground seem to
+pronounce EXA as a two-syllable word as opposed to a three-letter
+[initialism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Nomenclature). I
+guess I'm just not that cool yet, because I still think "ee ex ay"
+when I see "EXA"---maybe that's because I associate EXA with its
+predecessor, XAA, (which doesn't afford a word-like
+pronunciation). See also: Xorg pronounced as "zorg".
+
+[[!inline pages="link(tag/exa)" show=10]]