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LCA: The ways of Wayland

LCA: The ways of Wayland

Posted Mar 20, 2013 18:39 UTC (Wed) by chris.wilson (subscriber, #42619)
In reply to: LCA: The ways of Wayland by Cyberax
Parent article: LCA: The ways of Wayland

> Yes, you can run an X server with SNA acceleration _inside_ Wayland with full acceleration - http://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html

Claiming that will be the same speed is stretching the truth by about a factor of 2.


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LCA: The ways of Wayland

Posted Mar 20, 2013 18:48 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Well, yes. There's an additional roundtrip (from the X Server to the Wayland compositor). However, there are no reasons why it's not possible to do completely locally (perhaps using a better API like OpenVG).

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