Does metacity compositor use acceleration?

[Remco]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Andreas Schildbach
<andreas at schildbach.de> wrote:
> chombee wrote:
>
>  > Does the compositor that you can enable in metacity in hardy use 3D acceleration?
>
>  Yes, it does.
>
>
>  > I like it better than compiz (the alt-tab isn't broken for one thing) but it
>  > seems slow.
>
>  Actually, on my i915GMS Metacity compositing is much faster than Compiz.
>  And a lot less buggy. Maybe "Normal" visual effects (Appearance
>  Preferences) should use Metacity rather than Compiz?
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Andreas

Wasn't it the plan to make Metacity obsolete by making a fallback for
Compiz that doesn't use the graphics card for compositing? That would
make a switch very smooth. Use cases would be battery use, or people
that don't have a graphics card.