[ale] systemd or not

[Jim Kinney]

That explains why the NVidia macbook is just happy as a clam with gnome3
and the Acer POS-express with crappy video chip is a snail.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Solomon Peachy <pizza at shaftnet.org> wrote:

> 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
> --
> Solomon Peachy                         pizza at shaftnet dot org
> Delray Beach, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
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