On Thu, 14 May 2015 00:43:53 -0700
"R ." <[email protected]> wrote:

> OK, so my test drive hasn't really been "fair", as I only tested Weston and 
> not other Wayland implementations. But if you guys could suggest a less buggy 
> and faster implementation, then please what is it? It'll save me the time, 
> rather than trying each and every one.
> 
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Can speed of Wayland overtake the toll of emulating X?
> Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 00:04:42 -0700
> 
> So I've been test driving Wayland and it has more lag than LXDE 
> (understandably), and, of course, will get better... But, I'm more concerned 
> with backwards compatibility (and speed) with old X clients (until, of course 
> they eventually, port to Wayland). Since XWayland is another layer, so will 
> inherently will add toll, but can that be completely overtaken by the 
> lightness and speed of Wayland? I really need a minimalistic and fast desktop 
> environment, you see...
> 

Bryce is right.

As for Weston particularly, the experience you get depends heavily on
the hardware platform and software platform (graphics stack / drivers)
you tested it on.

For instance, if you happened to be relying software GL, I can bet it
would feel sluggish. This is even quite likely, if you tried it in a
virtual machine.

It really is not a measure of Wayland's perfomance in general. Wayland
is an enabler, not a silver-bullet implementation you could benchmark
in isolation.


Thanks,
pq
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