speed of FC5 vs next Ubuntu

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 08:54:49PM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote:

> There are a lot of variables that can affect the perception of whether a 
> gui is fast/responsive... Without some formality in testing and benchmark 
> methodoly, it's all speculation.

I don't have to have a methodology to show that FC5 slogs molasses
in comparison to Win XP (it's a dual-boot machine). I'm reasonably
certain that the culprit is X, and hence the problem unlikely to
go away in the near future.

FWIW, there's been a slight subjective performance improvement
when transiting from 2.4 to 2.6 kernel branch. I'm still harboring
the hopes that hardware acceration will make X moderately usable
-- the tradeoff with Win XP is that everything freezes if there's
heavy I/O.

I'm not certain if dual-head adds more penalty than just double
pixel real estate, but 30" displays being not yet affordable
it's not an option anyway.
 
> A perception of differing resonsiveness is not the most overt difference I 
> notice when going back and forth between my laptop, which is presently 
> running ubuntu and my desktop which is running fc4/x86_64, which again 
> means nothing (the hardware is wildly different albeit relativly modern in 
> both cases).

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