LCA: The ways of Wayland [LWN.net]

LCA: The ways of Wayland

Posted Feb 14, 2013 19:35 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: LCA: The ways of Wayland by nix
Parent article: LCA: The ways of Wayland

> And the XRender case is crucial for getting scrolling of large text windows to work efficiently over the network (since you don't have to retransmit a giant buffer every time, just a bunch of glyph positions).

Is this why Gnome-terminal is much better at displaying text over a network then Xterm is?

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LCA: The ways of Wayland

Posted Feb 15, 2013 17:57 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Well, they both use XRender. It is possible that the render extension is dropping back to a software fallback in the xterm case and not in the gnome-terminal case. perf (or other systemwide profiling tool) should tell you.