Xgl timeframe?

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 14:05 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > 
> > THANK YOU!  Until we fix that, Windows users will consider Linux a joke.
> > 
> > When I move a window why can't X simply remember what was behind it,
> > rather than wasting my CPU redrawing the same goddamn bitmaps?
> > 
> 
> This annoys me as well, but saving the contents of all windows would 
> simply take too much ram.

Well, I think redrawing it takes too much CPU...

>   Windows works the same way, but when then 
> uncovered window redraws the now uncovered parts, it does so fast enough 
> that you can't tell.  Since X is all around slower, it becomes very 
> noticeable and very annoying.  I'd like to know exactly why that 
> redrawing is so slow under X though, maybe there something there that 
> can be learned from windows to speed it up?
> 
> 

Maybe the new KAA stuff handles this.  I'm a bit worried though that all
the proposals I've heard for making X fast involve making it a lot more
complex, and some form of hardware acceleration.  Are we doomed to never
be as fast as Windows on the same hardware?

Lee