performance tests conducted on 7.04, 7.10, 8.04, 8.10rc

[Bryce Harrington]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:28:32AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > 	Phoronix ran performance tests on releases 7.04, 7.10, 8.04 and 8.10rc.
> > 8.10 seems to be the worst performer of the quartet. Have a look at
> > their summarizing article:
> 
> I wish they'd done tests across more than one video driver.  As it is,
> all these tests are really only for fglrx.

(I spoke with the author off list about some more informative tests that
could be run, to get some metrics that will better reflect the open
source X side of things.)

Bryce