-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: > "Charles Kerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted > below, on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:16:45 -0500: > >> Yesterday I gave 0.110 the a.b.m.startrek challenge -- it failed. >> The 'get headers' task was doing things that were find for regular >> groups, even large groups, but once you get up past 1,000,000 headers >> the overhead snowballed. >> >> I gave bugzilla a longish brain dump on the things I found wrong. >> See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353334 for more info. >> >> More importantly, it also has a patch to fix this in 0.111. I tested >> the patch against both 0.110 and 0.14.9x CVS, and the patch won. >> memory comparisons are also included in the bug report. > > I got around to applying the patch here yesterday, and while I've not > seriously stress-tested it yet, I've already noted the difference in CPU > usage. > > The contrast between 0.109 and 0.110 with this patch reminds me of the > difference between trying to use composite rendering on xorg-7.0, vs. 7.1 > and finally 7.1.1 after switching to EXA from XAA. 7.1.1 w/ EXA and > composite uses little CPU and is actually useful. 7.0 w/ XAA and > composite was nice eye candy, but used up way more CPU and had too much > built-in delay to actually be used, at least on my Radeon 9200 w/ xorg > drivers. (7.0 EXA was too crashy, 7.1.1 XAA still uses CPU and I doubt > that will change.) > > So now I get to use /both/ fancy EXA/composite /and/ fancy pan, without > undue strain or slowdown. =8^) >
Hear, Hear 7.1.1 with EXA/Composite rocks. What is video player gives you the best results? VLC, Mplayer, totem w/gstreamer or Xine? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE+z2V7XUlbB7lH2kRAjyBAJ90sBLb4OAa+uWmzdlNbxYjbB3vrQCeLpYU gE/sZBoY3JT+sWOgXy5Xo1s= =IIxE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
