X11 Chrome Reportedly Outperforms Windows and Mac Versions 542
An anonymous reader writes "In a curious contrast to conventional wisdom, there are reports of X11 Chromium being faster than Windows or Mac versions. In the thread titled 'Why is Linux Chrome so fast?,' a developer speculates that it is due to the use of X11 capabilities: 'On X-windows [sic], the renderer backingstores are managed by the X server, and the transport DIBs are also managed by the X server. So, we avoid a lot of memcpy costs incurred on Windows due to keeping the backingstores in main memory there.' Has the design of X11 withstood the test of time better than people tend to give it credit for?"
Test of time (Score:4, Funny)
"Has the design of X11 withstood the test of time better than people tend to give it credit for?"
Yes of course it has. X11 is great and anyone who thinks otherwise doesn't understand it properly, or have an accurate idea of what it's genuine problems are actually due to.
Re:X11 Chromium on Mac? (Score:1, Funny)
Right now the Chromium download page only supplies Linux and Windows versions:
http://www.reptilelabour.com/software/chromium/download.htm [reptilelabour.com]
Re:X11 has never been a problem. (Score:5, Funny)
So you are saying it is not X11 that is slow but Linux... Oh man you are taking it out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Re:Ummm... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Even if X is usually slower... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:20% faster on his 20% faster machine.... (Score:1, Funny)
"X11 fanboi"? Like, seriously!?
Re:Other performance gains (Score:5, Funny)
A Qt build of chromium exists, and is normally known as "konqueror".
Re:X11 has never been a problem. (Score:1, Funny)
Naaaaaah, he means B-BUS, you funky honky!
Re:Firefox did that already (Score:2, Funny)
Quote: 500+ tabs open simultaneously
You are shitting us? How the hell can you get anything done with 500+ tabs open simultaneously? I don't think its memory leaks thats your problem. I think its the sound of the entire OS deciding enough is enough and its going to take a break.
Re:What is this "X11?" (Score:1, Funny)
For added laughs, I just read that the next Microsoft graphical library is going to be called DirectX 11.
A bit like publishing (a few years after ODF) a document format in the shape of a zipped XML file and dubbing it "Office Open XML", I'm guessing..
Re:Even if X is usually slower... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Test of time (Score:5, Funny)
Why is this modded funny?
Re:Test of time (Score:4, Funny)
Forget about the gp, why is THIS modded funny?
Re:Test of time (Score:4, Funny)
And God forbid that I continue the joke and say, "Why is /THIS/ modded funny!?"
Re:Test of time (Score:3, Funny)
Forget about the gp, why is THIS modded funny?
Because if you say "why is this modded funny" and "this" isn't modded funny, then people get confused...
Re:Test of time (Score:3, Funny)
This is not funny.
Re:So in other words (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Test of time (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Test of time (Score:4, Funny)
you guys are hilarious.
Why isn't this modded redundant?