[ale] systemd or not

[Solomon Peachy]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 01:59:53PM -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> Oh, and I would LOVE to have someone explain to me WHY a desktop manager
> would have such a profound performance impact on an application and
> display that I would have thought would be spending most of it's time
> talking with X through the widget sets.  The mystery to me is why using
> GNOME as the desktop manager should even matter to an application like
> that, but it was and it was reproducible.

Basically, GNOME3 is built on top of pure OpenGL, and if your system has 
crummy GL capabilities, it ends up resorting to a software rendering 
fallback that is quite slow (and CPU intensive)

One could make an argument that they could have provided a non-GL 
fallback path, but that's another matter entirely.

 - Solomon
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