Anyone else think X has a performance problem ?

[Alan Cox]

> I've got boxes at home running FC6, F8, and F10. The FC6 box is an old 
> AMD Athlon 2Ghz 1.5GB memory, the F8 box is a P4 3 Ghz 2GB memory, and 
> the F10 box is an Intel Core2 2.2 Ghz 4GB memory.
> 
> For the test, I created a 1,000,000 line (80 byte lines, 80 MB) text
> file and timed "cat file" on all the boxes, with and without X. I ran 
> the test several times and reported the fastest time. I also tried 
> turning off anti-aliased text, but that was actually slower.
> 
> Bottom line, FC6 running X was 6 times faster than F8 and over 8 times
> faster than F10. I know that there have been many, many improvements in 
> Fedora over the years, but X looks like it's taking a big step backward. 
> And don't tell me the eye-candy is much better, because I don't care.

You seem to have erroneously posted a mix of numbers mixing up version,
kernel, X server and hardware. Unless you hold three of those constant to
get the variation in the fourth your data is totally meaningless - even
if there is a real slow down.